Trump is 'guaranteeing with every move' that Republicans lose the majority: MSNBC analyst

Former President Donald Trump is putting the Republican Party's already-imperiled House majority on a course for defeat this fall, MSNBC analyst John Heilemann argued on Friday evening.

This comes as Trump boosts House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in a joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago, all while the GOP suffers from infighting, retirements, and resignations, special election losses, and are put on the defensive by public outrage over abortion bans around the country — and as many of them continue to double down on support for election lies and the January 6 defendants.

"When we compared to 2020, you know in the aftermath of January 6th, there was, for a minute at least ... the GOP rejected the narrative that — they rejected January 6th and to some degree they rejected the Big Lie," said anchor Alex Wagner. "That all changed. [Former Speaker Kevin] McCarthy went down to take the photo at Mar-a-Lago. There's the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, having a press conference to talk about proposed legislation to deal with a problem that doesn't exist, which is more outlandish than I think many other theories we've heard from the GOP."

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"Let's be clear," said Heilemann. "This is the least surprising in the world, Mike Johnson wasn't just a follower, a lemming on the Big Lie and on the attempt to overturn, he was one of the primary architects of the Big Lie. This is a guy who's been down with that program since the beginning. He doesn't have the convictions to be speaker, doesn't know anything about the House and how it works. He's probably learned a few things in the year that he's been speaker—"

"Has it even been that long?" cut in Wagner.

"At least Kevin McCarthy understood parliamentary procedure," continued Heilemann. "Mike Johnson is there for one reason. He's the most MAGA candidate who survived the carnage a year ago, so to have them down there doing this, it's not surprising but it is incredible, you don't get to stay speaker if Republicans don't keep control of the House and everything Donald Trump is doing, he wants to get rid of Obamacare, he shoots down the immigration and border bill, he's tanking Ukraine aid, everything which [Senate GOP Leader Mitch] McConnell thinks that is in the interest of the Republican majority ... including Mike Johnson's own FISA deal. He is guaranteeing with every move that the Republicans will not still be in the majority after November, and hey, Mike, if you're not in the majority, you are not speaker anymore. It's craven politically, but also it's like suicidal."

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