'Awkward moment': Matt Gaetz gets pulled away while taunting Kevin McCarthy at RNC
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) had to be held back during an interview at the Republican National Convention as he taunted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
McCarthy was speaking to reporters on Tuesday when Gaetz interrupted the conversation.
"What night are you speaking?" Gaetz said. "Are you speaking tonight?"
Bystanders pulled Gaetz away, but the lawmaker forced his way back toward McCarthy.
"Hey, you're not, if you took that stage, you would get booed off of it!" Gaetz exclaimed. "You would get booed off the stage."
NewsNation correspondent Joe Khalil described the incident as an "awkward moment" on the convention floor.
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Gaetz is largely responsible for ousting McCarthy as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
McCarthy has said that Gaetz pushed to remove him as revenge for refusing to kill an ethics investigation.
"I'll give you the truth why I'm not speaker," McCarthy explained earlier this year. "Because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old, an ethics complaint that started before I ever became speaker. And that's illegal and I'm not gonna get in the middle of it."