Republican Ohio Rep. Dave Joyce said Sunday that he didn't want to be drawn into commenting on Donald Trump's recent call to suspend the Constitution over baseless claims of 2020 election fraud.
"You just said you'd support a candidate who's come out for suspending the Constitution.".
So you got to [separate] fact from fantasy -- and fantasy is that we're going to suspend the Constitution and go backwards.
Elsewhere in the interview, he told Stephanopoulos that with a newly-won Republican majority in the House, the group that he leads will focus on kitchen-table issues.
He said the spending bills in a Republican House will be "lower than what's happened in the last four years.".
Echoing Jeffries, he played down the possibility that some Democrats would join Republicans in backing an alternative to McCarthy.
"And I think, at the end of the day, Kevin will be the next speaker of the House. »