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Trump Refuses to Say If He Still Backs Kevin McCarthy for Speaker

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

“We’ll see what happens. We’ll see how it all works out,” the former president told a journalist.

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Former President Donald Trump declined to confirm whether he’d continue to endorse Rep. Kevin McCarthy as the new Speaker of the House in a Tuesday interview, answering evasively after the California representative struggled in vain to lock in the House’s top job.

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