{"id":1739785,"date":"2022-11-15T13:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739785"},"modified":"2022-11-15T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T18:18:21","slug":"andy-biggs-to-challenge-kevin-mccarthy-in-bid-to-become-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/andy-biggs-to-challenge-kevin-mccarthy-in-bid-to-become-house-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Biggs To Challenge Kevin McCarthy In Bid To Become House Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fandy-biggs-to-challenge-kevin-mccarthy-in-bid-to-become-house-speaker%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739785&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) announced late Monday that he would challenge House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to become the next Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona congressman shared his plan to seek the top House position during an interview on Newsmax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a new paradigm here, and I think the country wants a different direction from the House of Representatives. And it\u2019s a new world, and, yes, I\u2019m going to be nominated tomorrow to \u2014 to the position of Speaker of the House,\u201d Biggs said during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsmax-tv\/andy-biggs-kevin-mccarthy-house\/2022\/11\/14\/id\/1096384\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll see if we can get the job done and the votes,\u201d Biggs added. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be tough. I mean, Kevin \u2014 Kevin has raised a lot of money and done a lot of things. But this is not just about Kevin. I think it\u2019s about the institutional direction and trajectory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biggs, the former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, launched the bid following a lackluster performance by the GOP during last week\u2019s midterm elections. The House is still expected to tip toward Republicans, but not with the sweeping \u201cred wave\u201d predicted by some ahead of Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire reached out to the office of Rep. Biggs on Tuesday. No formal statement has yet been released beyond the congressman\u2019s interview, according to spokesman Matthew Tragesser.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate remains in the hands of Democrats, with 50 seats already projected to the GOP\u2019s 49. One seat will be decided in Georgia\u2019s December 6 runoff between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican hopeful Herschel Walker, as neither reached the necessary 50% of votes needed according to state law.<\/p>\n<p>The disappointing results have led to resistance from some Republican leaders regarding who should lead the party in both the House and Senate. In the House, Louisiana\u2019s Steve Scalise is also seeking the majority leader position.<\/p>\n<p>To become speaker, McCarthy would need a majority of his party\u2019s support in a secret-ballot vote on Tuesday. If he moves forward, he\u2019ll then need at least 218 votes to secure a majority when the new Congress arrives in January.<\/p>\n<p>In the Senate, some Republicans have also stated their concerns regarding Minority Leader Mitch McConnell continuing as their leader. The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/republican-lawmakers-push-for-change-in-congressional-leadership-after-lackluster-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that several high-profile lawmakers, including Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), have circulated a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/11\/gop-senators-call-for-postponing-leadership-elections-00066532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> asking their colleagues to postpone leadership elections.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio also urged a delay to the scheduled vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not have a Senate GOP leadership vote until we have a clear explanation for why our 2022 campaign efforts failed AND until we have a clear understanding of the political &#038; policy direction for the GOP Senate moving forward,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We should not have a Senate GOP leadership vote until we have a clear explanation for why our 2022 campaign efforts failed AND until we have a clear understanding of the political &#038; policy direction for the GOP Senate moving forward<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1592222254448148480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst we need to make sure that those who want to lead us are genuinely committed to fighting for the priorities &#038; values of the working Americans (of every background) who gave us big wins in states like #Florida,\u201d he added in another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcorubio\/status\/1591112183945269251\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) announced late Monday that he would challenge House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to become the next Speaker of the House. The Arizona congressman shared his plan to seek the top House position during an interview on Newsmax. \u201cWe have a new paradigm here, and I think the country wants a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1739788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}