’s speaker bid appeared to backfire this week as their targets in the House GOP conference vowed to stand firm against him.
“They’re messing with the wrong guy. I’m not going to be cowed by this stuff,” Bacon told HuffPost on Wednesday. “I spent 30 years in the Air Force, four deployments. You think a bunch of threats and weird Twitter comments get under my skin?” “I think everybody just needs to stop,” Donalds said. “Just let the members have this discussion amongst us.”of the speaker’s office earlier this month after he prevented a government shutdown with Democratic help. Many GOP members are still upset about his ouster. It took McCarthy 15 rounds of voting to become speaker in January, and as of Wednesday, it doesn’t look like anyone else in the Republican conference can do better.