Optics.
Perhaps it is the plan to make DJT speaker of the house. The optics would not be as good if 45 opposed McCarthy because he wanted to be speaker of the house.
Now Trump can get a nomination without that fight against McCarthy.
After all, McCarthy is the first failed speaker vote in 100 years. We all know Trump's world consists of Longshots.
Not a chance in hell PDJT is going for Speaker. That would completely undermine his return to the White House, whenever that may be.
Why do you say that?
He's running and/or ascending back to the presidency. Not SOH. Devolution. COGON. Not in the stars. Counterproductive.
He already said he wouldn't run for soh
He doesn't have to run for soh. He can be nominated while golfing at Mar a Lago honestly.
Can he run for President while being Speaker?
Yes he can, it's been done. Polk the 11th president. Granted he was a mason and didn't do consecutively or having been president prior. He was speaker first and then president a few years later.
I have no idea. I can't see why not. But it doesn't seem like something Trump would be interested in doing.
Except for the Constitutional problem that neither Speaker nor President Pro Tempore are eligible to succeed to the presidency because neither positions are Officers of the USA. To be eligible to ascend, must be a member of the Executive branch. Regardless of what the current statute for the order of succession says, after VP, the next legal officer in line is Sec of State.
I had always thought 3rd in line was SOH. That is what I learned as a youngster.
I was taught the same, unfortunately by people who never actually read the Constitution. Speaker is not an Officer of the USA, and thus not eligible.
Are you constitutionally illiterate? Are you incapable of reading something and comprehending what was said?
Speaker is not an Officer of the USA, and thus under the Constitution ineligible to be on the order of succession in cases of presidential vacancy.
Doesn't matter what the current federal statute says. Constitution trumps statute.