Ana Navarro ‘Relishes’ Kevin McCarthy Losing House Speaker Vote: He’s ‘A Snake & A Weasel’

Ana Navarro has been getting a consciousness of schadenfreude from watching Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy lose successful his bid to go the House Speaker for the 118th Congress. The View co-host, who herself identifies arsenic a Republican, revealed that she’s loved seeing him suffer the ballot a whopping 11 times during the show connected Friday, January 6. Despite acknowledging however the turmoil is atrocious for the country, she did person a consciousness of joyousness successful knowing that helium was losing.

LONGEST HOUSE SPEAKER ELECTION SINCE 1859: While a infinitesimal of soundlessness was held astatine the Capitol to people the two-year day of the Jan. 6 attack, the House is paralyzed arsenic Rep. McCarthy awaits a 12th talker ballot — #TheView co-hosts discuss. https://t.co/cVclFZQmjA pic.twitter.com/ZOdnO6Ec8A

— The View (@TheView) January 6, 2023

Navarro spoke astir the galore concessions that  McCarthy has made to the fewer far-right Republican members of Congress who person repeatedly voted against him, preventing him from taking the House Speaker position. She cited 1 concession that helium made which volition let immoderate 1 subordinate to beryllium allowed to inquire to vacate the Speaker. She said that if helium does yet win, it volition beryllium the “worst time of his life,” due to the fact that of the deficiency of authority. “On his archetypal day, he’s going to beryllium the astir castrated, eunuch of a Speaker of the House, we’ve ever had. Yeah, he’ll person the large office, and he’ll person the coating for posterity, but he’ll person perfectly zero power,” she told her View co-hosts.

Navarro said that the Republican person deserved each azygous nonaccomplishment due to the fact that he openly met with erstwhile President Donald Trump just weeks aft the January 6 onslaught successful 2021. “I cognize that this is incredibly serious. I cognize it’s incredibly atrocious for the country. I cognize it’s atrocious for the instauration of Congress,” she said. “I americium sorry. Indulge me, arsenic I relish each azygous ballot helium loses, due to the fact that helium deserves it for being a snake and a weasel and a sniveling coward, and having gone, 3 weeks aft January 6, to spell kiss Donald Trump’s ring—among different assemblage parts—to Mar-A-Lago. So you cognize what, Kevin? You ain this.”

Ana Navarro called retired McCarthy arsenic he’s mislaid a fig of times to triumph the House Speaker position. (ABC/Lou Rocco/Matt Rourke/AP/Shutterstock)

Later successful the discussion, Navarro besides spoke astir however the deals that McCarthy has made to effort to triumph implicit the Republicans voting against him consciousness precise hypocritical erstwhile speaking astir promises to “drain the swamp,” fixed however overmuch is being fixed up. “You’ve seen nary much grounds of swampiness than what Kevin McCarthy has been doing this full week: negotiating distant everything. He’s already fixed distant his spine. He’s fixed distant his brain. He’s fixed distant his soul. He’s fixed distant a kidney,” she explained.

The House has undergone 11 votes astatine the clip of this portion to effort to elite a caller House Speaker. In the astir caller vote, McCarthy lone chalked up 200 votes, with the faction of Republicans voting against him formed votes for Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern, and 1 ballot for Trump. One idiosyncratic has voted “Present,” and Democrats person been agreed successful casting 212 votes for Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. 

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