Fresh name jumps in fight to become new speaker of the House

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://dailyangle.com/articles/fresh-name-jumps-in-fight-to-become-new-
speaker-of-the-house

Republican Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona will mount a challenge to Rep. Kevin
McCarthy to become leader of House Republicans and most likely Speaker of
the House, Biggs announced on Monday.

“I think the country wants a different direction from the House of
Representatives,” Biggs said in a Newsmax appearance Monday night. “It’s a
new world, and, yes, I’m going to be nominated [Tuesday] for the position
of Speaker of the House.”

The House Republican Conference will hold leadership elections on Tuesday
to elect its leader, who will be the conference’s official nominee for
Speaker of the House when elections to the position are held in the 118th
Congress, beginning on Jan. 3, 2023. Republicans will likely win a
majority in the House after the Nov. 8 midterm elections, which will
enable them to elect the Speaker in a party-line vote.

McCarthy had been widely expected to ascend to the speakership without any
opposition, nearly seven years after he was denied the position by rival
conservative factions within the conference. However, the lackluster
election results, with no “red wave” being apparent, may have weakened
McCarthy’s standing in the conference and emboldened the same factions
that denied him the speakership in 2015.

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“I have personally stated that Kevin McCarthy has not done anything to
earn my vote,” said Rep. Bob Good of Virginia, a member of the House
Freedom Caucus, a sub-group of populist House GOP members who were elected
in the “Tea Party” movement during the 2010 midterm elections.
Additionally, Rep. Chip Roy of Texas has said that “no one has 218 votes,”
the number required to elect a speaker, in comments to NBC News.

Biggs’ challenge represents the Freedom Caucus’s rebuke of McCarthy, which
could thwart his chances to be elected Leader. Biggs was previously chair
of the Caucus, which currently has 43 members from among the GOP
conference.

A few members of the House GOP have come out as total opponents of
McCarthy, in that they will not support him regardless of whether other
candidates run.

“There are definitely at least five people, actually a lot more than that,
who would rather be waterboarded by Liz Cheney than vote for Kevin
McCarthy for Speaker of the House,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida on a
radio show hosted by former White House advisor Steve Bannon.

House Republicans will also hold elections for the role of Conference
Chair, a position held by Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, who has been
endorsed for the role by former President Donald Trump, but who has been
challenged by Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida. They will also elect a Vice
Chair and Secretary.

McCarthy and Biggs’s offices did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.

This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.


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