“Nancy Pelosi is a boss and she will continue to be,” Setmayer said on MSNBC’s The Sunday Show With Jonathan Capehart, adding that the Democratic House speaker has managed to be an example of “grace and class” throughout her career and that Republicans “can’t hold a candle to her.”

In predicting the GOP’s near future, Setmayer said Republican strategists don’t want Trump to announce that he is running for president in 2024 because they “recognize he is a losing proposition and that this is going to create an absolute chaotic primary for them.” The ex-president is reportedly expected to officially announce a presidential bid on Tuesday at Mar-a-Lago.

She also said that Republicans “can’t even figure” who is going to run the party now with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell being “on the chopping block” and that McCarthy, she feels, “will never be speaker.”

“They [Republicans] just don’t know what to do with themselves or going through an absolute identity crisis and Donald Trump jumping into this race now is great for Democrats,” she added.

McCarthy, a California Republican, might be facing a struggle to remain the top congressman as he becomes less favored by members of his own party after Republicans’ poor performance in last week’s midterm elections, which saw some Trump-endorsed candidates lose in some states, while Democrats continue their control over the Senate.

The GOP positioned themselves to ride a “red wave” with high hopes to win the Senate majority and make significant gains in the House. McCarthy even touted this belief, saying “when you wake up tomorrow, we will be in the majority and Nancy Pelosi will be in the minority.”

However, two days after the polls closed, Republicans didn’t achieve the 218 congressional seats needed to control the House, even though they might still be expected to do so as ballots continue to be counted.

McCarthy can be promoted to House speaker if he can secure the 218 votes needed in the upcoming leadership elections. However, not all Republicans are pleased with him.

“Look, we were told we were going to have an incredible, incredible wave,” Arizona Representative Andy Biggs, a leader of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told online streaming show The Absolute Truth on Wednesday.

He added that if Republicans had a 30 or 40 seat margin in the House, as projected prior to November 8, then “you would say, ‘Well, OK, Kevin is the presumptive Republican nominee for speaker.’ But I think we need to have a serious discussion.”

Meanwhile, Virginia Representative Bob Good, a House Freedom Caucus board member, has already expressed his views about McCarthy.

“Kevin McCarthy has not done anything to earn my vote for speaker,” Good told Axios. “I believe there’s a number of members who feel as I do and who will support a challenge to him as the speaker when we convene next week. I don’t think he has the votes.”

Newsweek reached out to McCarthy’s office for comment.