{"id":1780640,"date":"2022-12-19T16:52:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T21:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780640"},"modified":"2022-12-19T17:19:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:19:43","slug":"mccarthy-goes-on-office-in-bid-for-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-goes-on-office-in-bid-for-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy Goes on Office in Bid for Speaker"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fmccarthy-goes-on-office-in-bid-for-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=1780640&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Kevin-McCarthy-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Monday appeared to take a more aggressive approach to becoming the House speaker by wrapping up support among\u00a0potential incoming House Republican committee chairs and\u00a054 \u201cOnly Kevin\u201d votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">On January 3, McCarthy will need at least 218 votes from House members to win the gavel. There are currently five Republican members who oppose McCarthy\u2019s speakership.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Fourteen potential incoming House Republican committee chairs issued a letter in support of McCarthy. The letter is significant because the signatories include some of the most notable members of the GOP House conference including some high-profile conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Signatories of the letter included 14 potential committee chairs, including Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), James Comer (R-KY), Michael McCaul (R-TX), and Patrick McHenry (R-NC):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"a8d-pre twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New \u2013 Incoming House Republican Committee Chairs are urging their conference \u2013 in a new letter \u2013 to vote for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GOPLeader?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GOPLeader<\/a> McCarthy to be Speaker on January 3. \u201cLet us not squander the majority before we even take back the gavels,\u201d the letter states. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IYvzi5lGdL\">pic.twitter.com\/IYvzi5lGdL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lauren Peller (@lauren_peller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lauren_peller\/status\/1604846425296470017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe wholeheartedly endorse Kevin McCarthy for Speaker,\u201d the incoming committee chairs wrote. \u201cHe has the leadership skills, the vision, the determination to take our conference where we need to go starting on day one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fifteen days, we will be sworn into the 118th Congress as the majority party in the House, and upholding this responsibility demands we get right to work,\u201d the letter added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge our colleagues \u2013 let us not squander this majority before we even take back the gavels. Time is of the essence, and the American people want us to get to work now,\u201d the letter concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The letter comes on the same day that McCarthy released names of 54 \u201cOnly Kevin\u201d GOP House members who <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/23466126\/kevin-mccarthy-am-2.pdf\">will<\/a>\u00a0not vote for anyone else other than McCarthy. The group of \u201cOnly Kevin\u201d voters have reportedly donned pins with the \u201cOnly Kevin\u201d abbreviation \u201cO.K.\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"a8d-pre twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Moderate GOP Rep. John Katko shows off his \u201cOnly Kevin\u201d button: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0HsvybwQIo\">pic.twitter.com\/0HsvybwQIo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewSolender\/status\/1603445488975495170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some notable members of the \u201cOnly Kevin\u201d voters include\u00a0Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene\u00a0(R-GA),\u00a0Rep-elect Max Miller (R-OH),\u00a0Rep-elect Harriet Hageman (R-WY),\u00a0Rep. David Valadao (R-CA), and\u00a0Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC).<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/12\/15\/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-conservative-rebellion\">told<\/a> Axios he is supporting McCarthy because McCarthy has made concessions to conservatives.\u00a0\u201cMcCarthy has given conservatives a seat at the table, which is why I\u2019m supporting him for Speaker,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentPasted1\">McCarthy is currently opposed by five GOP House members:\u00a0Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Ralph Norman (R-SC), Matt Rosendale (R-MT), and Bob Good (R-VA).<\/p>\n<p>If the McCarthy opposition sticks together, they could derail McCarthy\u2019s hopes of the speakership. It is possible establishment Republicans could work with Democrats to elect a Republican not named McCarthy. The opposition appears to be struggling to find an alternative to McCarthy\u2019s bid.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\"><span><i>Twitter<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0@WendellHuseb\u00f8. He is the author of\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Politics-Slave-Morality-Wendell-Husebo-ebook\/dp\/B08PPYQSDZ%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank\"><span><i>Politics of Slave Morality<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Monday appeared to take a more aggressive approach to becoming the House speaker by wrapping up support among\u00a0potential incoming House Republican committee chairs and\u00a054 \u201cOnly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1780643,"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":[547],"tags":[7564,5458,3663,5660,3819,5654],"class_list":["post-1780640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bid","tag-bongino","tag-mccarthy","tag-office","tag-report","tag-speaker"],"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\/1780640","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1780643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}