Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., told Newsmax on Thursday that despite voting to advance the motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., she “wouldn’t change the speaker” now.

“At the beginning of the [current] Congress, we fought a lot to change [former Democrat Speaker] Nancy Pelosi’s rules that made her into a queen; we don’t have queens and kings,” Spartz said on “Wake Up America.” “A lot of Americans before us died not to have kings and queens, and speaker of the House has to have rules and not really try to push whatever agenda they want on other members. So, one of the rules to keep accountability on the speaker was to be able to move motion to vacate, which existed for 100 years before Nancy Pelosi changed and only leadership could move that motion. As you know, no one will ever do that.

“When we had a motion for Speaker [Kevin] McCarthy, I didn’t vote to vacate him because I felt, by the end of the time he was speaker, he actually started understanding that we need to govern. But I think it’s a fair thing. The members need to say on the floor how they feel about their leader, and I think I did the same. I was consistent with my vote, and I think there was a lot of frustration. At this point, I wouldn’t change the speaker. This Congress pretty much is a lost cause at this point before the election, but I think the motion needed to go to the floor. That is the rules of the House.”

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