but stephanopoulos pressed further and joyce ultimately said that trumps comment should be taken in context but that it wouldnt prevent him from supporting trump if he ends up winning the nomination does he have the votes he said compromise would have to prevail among centrists and hardliners in order to accomplish things the former president wrongly asserted that the massive fraud which did not occur allows for the termination of all rules regulations and articles even those found in the constitution well then who he said elsewhere in the interview he told stephanopoulos that with a newlywon republican majority in the house the group that he leads will focus on kitchentable issues its early i think theres going to be a lot of people in the primary and right now you hear that were just not going to vote for kevin i think the democrats are going to vote for democrats republicans will vote for republicans joyce said jeffries plays down chances of dems voting for gop compromise speaker over mccarthy well you know he says a lot of things joyce said adding i cant be really chasing every one of these crazy statements that come from any of these candidates what these people got to get used to is that if a majority of our conference agree to something then thats how you move the ball forward in july joyce was unanimously elected chair of the republican governance group which he has said is hellbent on breaking through washingtons dysfunction you cant come out against someone whos for suspending the constitution our group is basically focused on making government work joyce told stephanopoulos when asked about how much leverage his group holds and how they plan to use it in a divided government stephanopoulos pushed back once again he says a lot of things but that doesnt mean that its ever going to happen stephanopoulos asked so you got to separate fact from fantasy and fantasy is that were going to suspend the constitution and go backwards stephanopoulos asked joyce but i will support whoever the republican nominee is joyce said while noting he didnt think trump would manage to win the 2024 republican presidential nomination because there are a lot of other good quality candidates out there thats a remarkable statement stephanopoulos said were not the people who you see on tv every week talking about issues that arent germane to what the people are feeling at home joyce initially declined to respond saying he didnt know what trump said on social media and that the public wasnt interested in looking backwards you all talk about different things but at the end of the day were going to do our job and put 12 appropriations bills out there joyce like other leading republicans said mccarthy proved he deserves the opportunity and has done the hard work that was necessary to bring together the majority how will he get there and