Chris Wallace: House Republicans Are in ‘Complete Chaos, Complete Disarray’

Fox News’ Chris Wallace said in the wake of Kevin McCarthy’s decision to drop out of the race to replace Speaker of the House John Boehner that the House Republican caucus was in “complete chaos.”

Fox anchor Gregg Jarrett pointed that many of those in the race simply couldn’t get the votes needed to win. “Is there a pretty conspicuous vacuum for now?” he asked.

“I think vacuum is putting it too nicely, Gregg,” Wallace responded. “It is complete chaos on Capitol Hill.”

“The Republican Party in the House is in complete chaos, complete disarray right now,” he continued. “And you would think, maybe not today but over the next couple of weeks, the pressure will be enormous to find somebody that everybody or at least 218 Republicans can agree on.”

Wallace thought that one of the compromise candidates who expressed disinterest in becoming Speaker, such as Trey Gowdy, Paul Ryan or Jeb Henserling, would eventually be talked into the job. “I would think that there is going to be a lot of pressure on one of them– as much as they don’t want to be Speaker– to say yes, so they can get the trains running on time.”

“All of these guys face reelection in a year,” Wallace noted. “They don’t want to go into an election indicating they can’t even govern themselves, let alone the country.”

Watch above, via Fox News.

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