House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) questioned if Trump is the strongest Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential election, although he believed Trump could beat Biden.
“Can he win that election? Yeah, he can. The question is, is he the strongest to win the election? I don’t know that answer,” the House Speaker said on CNBC.
“But can somebody, anybody beat Biden? Yeah, anybody can beat Biden. Can Biden beat other people? Yes, Biden can beat ‘em. It’s on any given day,” McCarthy continued.
McCarthy later told Breitbart that Trump is “Biden’s strongest political opponent.”
“As usual, the media is attempting to drive a wedge between President Trump and House Republicans as our committees are holding Biden’s DOJ accountable for their two-tiered levels of justice,” the House Speaker said to the news outlet.
He continued, “The only reason Biden is using his weaponized federal government to go after President Trump is because he is Biden’s strongest political opponent, as polling continues to show.”
NBC News reported that after the Breitbart interview, McCarthy’s campaign sent a text message to Trump supporters that included a fundraising link.
Reporting from The Hill:
McCarthy’s uncertainty about whether Trump is the strongest candidate is notable given how close the Speaker has remained to the former president. Although McCarthy said in the aftermath of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, that Trump bore some responsibility for the attack, he visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago weeks later. Last week, McCarthy backed proposals to expunge Trump’s two impeachments.
