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.
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.