Donald trump throwing his weight as you might have heard behind one jim jordan. Steve scalise shows no signs of backing down. All of this as the Republican Congress plans to vote on a Secret Ballot next week on who their nominee will be for speaker. Will donald trump be a king maker or could this be a deal breaker . Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. Lets go to chad pergram on capitol hill. Chad, where are we on all of this . Neil, good afternoon. The endorsement of jim jordan by former President Trump cut multiple ways. It may boost jordan among trump loyalists, but some republicans think the last thing they need is a speaker endorsed by the former president. Jordan says hes the guy. Who can bring our Team Together . Who can unite our conference and who can tell the American People what were doing and why its important to them. Someone has to be able to come forward, unite the republicans around our message, around what were doing for the American People and go make that take that me
Falsely, but of course, this is a very effective strategy for the gop base and for trump supporters. just look at the responses that we ve seen at the rallies when he makes these comments, when he mocked ford. when he mocked her, he got clears and applause. so clearly it s working and they re digging in just as hard even after getting confirmed? that s what i want to focus on. the president knows what he s doing. he knows that the cries get louder. he knows midterms are, you know, four weeks away, david chalian. does he think this playbook i know he s out at four rallies this week. will this work? will this help gin up the base, for everyone to show up on november 6th? everyone, as in republicans. right. i m sure it will have some benefit on that. i have little doubt about that. donald trump has a pretty strong relationship with the base of the republican party and you hear him out there, brooke, when he s giving speeches, he s saying, guys, you ve got to act like my name is on t