{"id":1739946,"date":"2022-11-15T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739946"},"modified":"2022-11-15T15:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T20:32:52","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-wins-gop-nomination-for-house-speaker-over-conservative-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-wins-gop-nomination-for-house-speaker-over-conservative-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy Wins GOP Nomination For House Speaker Over Conservative Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fkevin-mccarthy-wins-gop-nomination-for-house-speaker-over-conservative-protests%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=1739946&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>House Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kevin-mccarthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a> won the GOP nomination to be the next Speaker of the House on Tuesday, though a concerted effort by House conservatives to block McCarthy may force him to appeal to Democrats or bow out of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Republican Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/chip-roy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chip Roy<\/a> nominated Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, to challenge McCarthy\u00a0as head of the House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/republican-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican<\/a> caucus. McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilybrooksnews\/status\/1592597453450383360\">won<\/a> the contest in a 188-31 vote. McCarthy will need to secure at least 218 votes in January to become the next Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<p>Biggs and Roy orchestrated the challenge as conservatives in the House tried to unseat McCarthy over the direction of the caucus and the results of the 2022 midterm election. The election results in which Republicans appear set to eke out a slim majority of about 220 seats disappointed and frustrated many Republicans. McCarthy has argued that Republicans need unity to solidify their likely small majority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a tight majority so everyone is going to have to work together,\u201d McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2022-11-15\/mccarthy-taking-first-step-to-house-speaker-but-grind-ahead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> late Monday after a meeting with House Republicans. \u201cWe\u2019ll be successful as a team and we\u2019ll be defeated as an individual if we don\u2019t all work together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biggs first announced that he would challenge McCarthy for the top spot on Monday during an appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/newsmax-tv\/andy-biggs-kevin-mccarthy-house\/2022\/11\/14\/id\/1096384\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsmax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the country wants a different direction from the House of Representatives,\u201d Biggs said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a new world, and, yes, I\u2019m going to be nominated [Tuesday] for the position of speaker of the House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy aims to become the next Speaker of the House with the expected Republican majority. Biggs\u2019 longshot challenge may spoil that, however, if his supporters refuse to back McCarthy. McCarthy has pledged not to seek additional votes from Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKevin has raised a lot of money and done a lot of things, but this is not just about Kevin,\u201d Biggs continued. \u201cI think it\u2019s about institutional direction and trajectory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chiproytx\/status\/1592228964759650306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a post on social media Monday: \u201cAmericans are demanding transformative change but Congress is too broken to provide that change. Our Speaker, whoever that is \u2026 must a) reject the status quo, lead on issues that matter to Americans, &#038; empower House members to fight for those issues.\u00a0 4) No member currently has 218 &#038; there\u2019ll be an alternative presented. This is bigger than any individual \u2013 it\u2019s about the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Allies of McCarthy have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-kevin-mccarthy-made-failed-bid-to-recruit-texas-dem-as-gop-tries-to-grab-slim-house-majority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> been trying to recruit at least one moderate Democrat, Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, to switch parties. Cuellar\u2019s switch would strengthen Republicans\u2019 likely slim hold on the House. McCarthy has denied that those requests to Cuellar came at McCarthy\u2019s behest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone suggesting this is simply exercising in fan fiction,\u201d McCarthy spokesman Mark Bednar said. \u201cLeader McCarthy is going to be elected speaker by the current and newly-elected members of the House Republican Conference. Our efforts are exclusively focused on bringing our conference together and saving the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy won the GOP nomination to be the next Speaker of the House on Tuesday, though a concerted effort by House conservatives to block McCarthy may force him to appeal to Democrats or bow out of the contest. Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy nominated Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, who chairs the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1739949,"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-1739946","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\/1739946","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}