U.S. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.).
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise’s office confirmed to The Epoch Times that Scalise met with former President Trump in Florida this week.
“Rep. Scalise was in Florida this week on a political trip and met at Mar a Lago on Tuesday to chat with President Trump while he was there.” A spokesman told the Epoch Times by email.
Trump lived at his Sea Lake estate in Palm Beach after he left office. Scalise’s team declined to give details of his meeting with Trump.
The meeting is another sign that Trump retains influence with House Republicans, as House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) previously traveled to Florida to meet with former President Trump.
The Trump team has said that Trump had a “good and cordial” meeting with McCarthy in Florida on Jan. 28 to talk about how Republicans could flip the House in the 2022 midterm elections.
Trump’s political action committee said, “President Trump has agreed to work with Leader McCarthy to help the Republican majority in the House” and that work has already begun.”
This was Trump’s first public meeting with congressional leaders since he left office on Jan. 20.
In the 2020 election, Republicans added 15 seats in the House, significantly narrowing the Democratic majority. Republicans believe they can take control of the House in the 2022 midterm elections.
In a statement issued Feb. 16 against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Trump said, “Where necessary and appropriate, I will endorse those who support Make America Great Again (MAGA) and “America First” policies. We need leaders who are exceptional, strong, thoughtful and compassionate.”
In a recent statement, Trump said he would support candidates who agree with his “America First agenda” over Republicans and Democrats he has accused of pursuing a “people first agenda.
Next week, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) will be held in Florida, and Matt Schlapp, president of the American Conservative Union, helped organize the conference. helped organize the conference. He said he himself extended an invitation to Trump.
Trump has reportedly accepted the invitation.
A new Quinnipiac University poll showed that 75 percent of Republicans surveyed want the former president to continue to play a leading role in the party after four stormy years in the White House, while only 20 percent said they did not.
Tim Malloy, a polling analyst at Quinnipiac University, said the data shows that “he (Trump) certainly hasn’t lost favor with the GOP. After two impeachments, a trial in which he was vilified by Democrats and nearly silenced by social media ……, Donald Trump still maintains a solid foothold in the Republican Party.”
On February 17, GOP Senator Tim Scott told Fox News, “I still believe that President Trump is the most influential political figure on either side of the aisle.”
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