Recent retirements announced by the GOP mean that Democrats may get a chance to make an “unprecedented” power play that would expose the “fragile” Republican majority, according to a writer on Saturday.
Journalist and political analyst Hayes Brown appeared on MSNOW over the weekend, where he was asked about the recently announced Republican retirements, including that of noted conspiracy theorist and ex-Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene. More recently, another MAGA lawmaker announced he was retiring, resulting in speculation running rampant online.
When asked about how Dems might be able to make the most out of the retirements, Brown explained the source of some GOP discontentment with, “You have a White House that sort of doesn’t even really bother going to congress for most things at this point and just says, ‘We can do it on our own.’ So there’s that feeling of sort of inept, like inability to actually get anything done.”
Then, Greene changed the game by opening a new door for Democrats, according to Brown.
“With Greene’s exit, I think that opened the door to, if enough leave to deny Mike Johnson a majority, even temporarily, that would be chaotic and unprecedented in a way we haven’t seen,” he said. “Because what does happen if enough Republican lawmakers leave that you do have a situation where you we see, like with Kevin McCarthy, where the speaker is removed from power and the Democrats are the ones with a technical majority, enough to put Hakeem Jeffries in the seat?”
He further asked, “What does that even look like? How how does that work?” before adding, “And the fact that we’re even considering it shows how fragile the Republican majority really is.”
The host called the potential upcoming situation “another unprecedented scenario.”
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