“They should all be driven out of public life,” the former House speaker said of the eight Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy from his post.
Newt Gingrich has slammed the eight Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from his post as House speaker as “traitors.”
Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida orchestrated the historic effort by filing a “motion to vacate,” sparked by McCarthy’s recent decision to work with Democrats to avoid a federal government shutdown.
The resolution passed on Tuesday with the support of eight Republicans—many of them the same hard-right lawmakers who had tried to stop McCarthy from becoming speaker in January—and all the Democrats present and voting. The vote made McCarthy the first speaker in U.S. history to be voted out of the position by his colleagues.
The Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy as speaker were Gaetz, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ken Buck of Colorado, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Eli Crane of Arizona, Bob Good of Virginia, Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Matt Rosendale of Montana.
“They are traitors,” Gingrich, a former House speaker, said during an appearance on Fox News.
