McCarthy Dodges Question On Whether He Could Work With President Cruz (VIDEO)

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said he could easily work with Donald Trump as President, but on Monday’s episode of “Morning Joe,” he dodged the question of whether he could work with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

“Oh, yeah, I think it will work with Donald Trump,” McCarthy readily told MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.

When McCarthy balked when asked about Cruz, Scarborough asked him to “be honest, be honest.”

McCarthy said it was “an unfair question.”

Scarborough said McCarthy had firsthand knowledge of Cruz’s tactics during the government shutdown in 2013.

McCarthy said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was also in the Senate during the government shutdown, but colleagues still work with him.

“But you could play that into the fact, I think, Rubio was there with him and look how many people are backing Rubio. I think a lot of those tried to use that angle for themselves to run for president. I think if they became the nominee they would try to be a different person,” McCarthy said. “I think I can work with anyone that comes out to be the nominee, yes. Fundamentally, whoever wins the nomination wants to be successful.”

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  1. McCarthy = Male Air Head

  2. He is a Republican’s Republican and forms the core of Republican party.

  3. Scarborough working for Trump some more. Is he trying for the V-P spot or a cabinet position? Shameless, Despicable. Why does MSNBC allow this? Brings the network down.

  4. “Oh, yeah, I think it will work with Donald Trump,” McCarthy readily told MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.

    When McCarthy balked when asked about Cruz. Scarborough asked him to “be honest, be honest.”

    McCarthy said it was “an unfair question.”


    Presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are teaming up to promote a confrontational tactic intended to strip Planned Parenthood of government funding, a move that plays to the GOP’s conservative base but also risks a shutdown.

    On Monday evening, GOP front-runner Trump officially blessed a strategy that would include a rider that defunds Planned Parenthood in a government funding bill. But Democrats have said they would oppose any bill that includes such a defunding rider, which would imperil funding legislation that Congress must pass by Sept. 30.

    “If the Republicans stuck together you could have done it with Obamacare also, but the Republicans decided not to stick together and they left a few people out there like Ted Cruz,” Trump said. “If they had stuck together they wold have won that battle. I think you have to in this case [on Planned Parenthood] also, yes.”

    hmmmm

    Here’s Al Green with a timely track…

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