Gaetz said cnn‘s Jake Tapper on Sunday planned to try to unseat McCarthy from office after McCarthy worked with Democrats to narrowly avoid a federal government shutdown over the weekend.
Gaetz led the right-wing group of House Republicans who opposed McCarthy’s run for president in the first place. McCarthy needed 15 votes to finally win the job.
Pelosi, speaking to Tapper after her conversation with Gaetz, told the CNN host that she was “wasting my time on that guy.”
Gaetz “has no influence” in the House “except to appear on television and raise money on the Internet,” Pelosi continued.
McCarthy, when asked by CBS’s Margaret Brennan about Gaetz’s mission to depose him, responded, “I will survive.”
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