MSNBC host Pleasure Reid requested Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) if his Republican Home colleagues nominated him for speaker final week as a “range assertion” Tuesday on her present “The ReidOut.”
Reid mentioned, “You have been nominated for speaker. You’ve gotten been in Congress for one time period. What have been your {qualifications} to be speaker of the Home?”
Donalds mentioned, “I feel my colleagues acknowledge my management and have seen it in leaps and bounds.”
Reid requested, “Are you able to give specifics?”
Donalds mentioned, “I’ve served on the state stage.”
Reid continued, “You’ve gotten been there one time period, and also you’re saying that you’d be ready after one time period to do the job that Speaker Pelosi and others who have been in management, you ran for management, and also you misplaced that management race to the congresswoman who ended up being in management. You weren’t elected to management, however you imagine although you could have by no means served in management ever, and have solely served one time period, you imagine have been certified. Since you bought into it forwards and backwards with a fellow congresswoman who was vital of the nomination as a result of it positively regarded like they have been searching for a response to Hakeem Jeffries, in you.”
Donald mentioned, “No. That was not it.”
Reid mentioned, “One of many issues that, I don’t know that you simply mentioned it, however members have mentioned they wished to spotlight the range of the convention. There are 4 African-American members within the Home caucus, the Republican caucus. There are 56 members within the Democratic caucus. So simply it’s extra numerous.”
She requested, “So do you not imagine that the thought was to make a range assertion by nominating you?”
Donalds mentioned, “That was not the thought as a result of I used to be within the room when the choice was made by individuals who selected to appoint me. That by no means got here up.”
Comply with Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
