Donald Trump has “zero desire” to be speaker of the House of Representatives, a spokesman said, after the former president discussed the outlandish idea.
Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, is the current House speaker. Republicans under the minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, hope to retake the chamber next year.
Trump was ejected from the White House in January. He retains control of the Republican party and has publicly mulled another run for the presidency in 2024.
Under congressional rules, the House speaker does not have to be a sitting member of Congress, though all of them so far have been.
Nonetheless, chatter about the most unlikely of political comebacks has spread among Trump supporters since
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