Jake Tapper didn’t cling again Sunday as he hit Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) with a harsh query at the state of the Area GOP amid its speaker stalemate.
“I’m hoping you don’t take this in my view however do you guys have any thought how clownish you glance?” Tapper requested Turner on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“Smartly, you recognize, Jake, I’m very fond of claiming that Congress is so much like highschool however much more so,” Turner responded, “so, with a bit of luck, we’ll get previous this.”
Tapper, previous in his interview with Turner, referred to the speaker applicants earlier than asking if the lawmaker’s most well-liked selection for the task may get the important 217 votes from the 221-member Area GOP convention.
Turner famous that it might be “very tough” for a candidate to get that quantity of votes, evaluating the duty to “any such Rubik’s Dice of the solution to all of this.”