Speaker McCarthy Scoffs at Gaetz’s Threats to Oust Him: ‘Oh My God, Someone Tweeted About Me?’

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Speaker of the Home Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) scoffed at threats from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to oust him from the speakership, shrugging on the Florida congressman’s assaults as just any individual tweeting about him.

McCarthy infamously needed to slog through fifteen rounds of votes to claim the speaker’s gavel, as a result of opposition from hardline Freedom Caucus members like Gaetz, who was the only vote who blocked McCarthy’s course on the fourteenth vote and required a fifteenth attempt.

Probably the most concessions Gaetz and his allies demanded used to be to permit a motion to vacate the chair — basically, the vote to remove McCarthy as Speaker — to be filed by using only one Home member. Gaetz has repeatedly touted this attainable vote as a cudgel to be wielded with the aid of the correct wing of the Republican caucus to power McCarthy to furnish a few of their calls for.

Even McCarthy’s willingness to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden did not mellow Gaetz’s emotions and he has been increasingly more calling for McCarthy’s defenestration — even going as far as to attempt to recruit Democrats to sign up for him in voting to oust McCarthy.

Punchbowl Information managing editor Heather Caygle caught up with McCarthy and asked him about Gaetz’s “regular Twitter threats to oust him.”

Caygle tweeted McCarthy’s sarcastic response:

Oh my god, somebody tweeted about me? Oh my god, I’m gonna lose the speakership as a result of anyone tweeted about me. That may’ve happened a very long time ago.

In the meantime, Gaetz’s posts on The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter have heavily targeted McCarthy for days and his bio incorporates a photograph of him yelling at McCarthy right through some of the later rounds of that contentious speakership vote.

Screenshot by the use of Twitter.

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