Conservatives were not any easier on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s recorded comments about calling on then-President Trump to resign after the January 6 Capitol insurrection. But their expectations may be different if polled again after learning of Donald J. Trump’s forgiveness toward McCarthy in his late-Friday interview with The Wall Street Journal. Comments:

If he does (become speaker) patriots will abandon the party.

--Mike Soubirous (retired Riverside, California city councilmember)

R.I.N.O.s need to go.

--Jeanette Starykowicz

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