Awfully presumptuous. It has not been announced that the GOP will take the House. Also Trump's endorsement of McCarthy is also a red flag. McCarthy will be no better than Ryan or Boehner. Trump is leaning RINO.
Kevin McCarthy fields questions from GOP conference behind closed doors ahead of leadership elections House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy took questions from members of his conference at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill on Monday night, according to a member in the room, part of his effort to assuage House Republican concerns and win enough support to lead the conference in the new Congress.
McCarthy got a standing ovation in their first post-election meeting, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
“They don’t give out gavels in small, medium, and large – we have the majority and we have the gavels,” McCarthy said.
House Republicans are meeting Monday evening to discuss the leadership candidates, and have a closed-door vote on Tuesday. McCarthy will only need a simple majority to advance from Tuesday’s vote, but the vote on the House floor for speaker will come when the new House convenes in January, and McCarthy will need 218 votes at that time to win the speakership.
Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, a former chairman of the pro-Trump House Freedom Caucus, is considering mounting a long-shot challenge to McCarthy during the House GOP’s internal leadership elections on Tuesday, according to GOP sources familiar with the matter. McCarthy’s team has been prepared for this possibility.
Biggs would not confirm to CNN if he is mounting a long-shot challenge at the House GOP’s internal leadership elections on Tuesday, but was confident there will be a challenger.
“Nobody has 218 votes and there will be a challenger in the conference,” Biggs said.
Texas GOP Rep. Chip Roy told reporters Monday afternoon that someone will challenge McCarthy and receive enough votes to show that he currently doesn’t have enough to win the gavel in January.
“There will be an alternative,” Roy said.
Trump encourages allies to back McCarthy
Former President Donald Trump has been privately encouraging allies to support McCarthy’s bid for House speaker, according to two sources familiar with the effort, believing that the California Republican will be an asset down the road should the former president find himself in a contested 2024 primary. ..............
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/politics/kevin-mccarthy-trump-support/index.html
