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Machiavellian said:

Renamed said:

I can guarantee it's not her plan and she's too inept to realize it's a bad plan.

Here are the 3 options:

1. If no call to vacate - nothing changes.

2. If call to vacate, D's help - nothing changes.

3. If call to vacate, D's don't help - seat is vacated.

If it were a ploy to keep Speaker Johnson, no need to call to vacate in the first place.  If the ploy were to coax D's into working with R's, it makes no sense.  D's had already shown they can work with R's on legislation.  Further, D's get leverage over R's. There is always some form of tit for tat. The Speaker is the one how determines which legislation gets voted on, has power over the Rules committee and appoints members to various other committees.  Minority Leader Jeffries will absolutely negotiate some influence in exchange for saving Johnson.

I was kidding.  If anything this is MJT trying to exert some leverage within the party and hoping Trump wins so she can then look to obtain the Speakership herself at some point in time.  All of this is just a power play but it will land very bad for her if all the tea leaves do not align.

I can definitely see MJT attempting to curry favor with DJT (the initials are so close) but she's already been out maneuvered by Johnson.  Of the two, which one just had a visit to Mar-a-Lago and received Trump's affirmations?  Further, even if they retained the House in Nov, she will not receive more than a small handful of votes in favor of her as a Speaker.  Trump can't appoint her.  The majority of the majority, as it were, is not aligned with her BS anymore.

All that said, she just announced the official call to vacate will take place sometime next week.  Republicans in return have already stated they will likely either take a preemptive veto or immediately do a floor vote to kill it once called. 

She's performing for a party of one that snubbed his nose at her 3 times in the past 2 weeks. She can't see past a single pawn on a chess board much less play advanced party politics.