Posted on 12/31/2022 12:45:55 PM PST by bimboeruption
Dozens of Republicans have indicated they plan to vote for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for speaker no matter how drawn out the voting process becomes, according to letters circulated among Republicans this week.
The letters, first reported by Politico, came from Republican Main Street Caucus leaders and from a group of Republicans who won districts that President Joe Biden carried in 2020.
In the Main Street Caucus’s letter, sent Friday, chair Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) and vice chair Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-OK) wrote that their more than 70-member caucus had come to a “strong consensus” that they would vote for McCarthy and that they would not support behind-the-scenes negotiations that “reward chaos” and that do not “expediently” result in McCarthy’s election.
“Members of the Main Street Caucus will hold the line,” Johnson and Bice wrote. “Kevin McCarthy is best prepared to lead the 118th Congress, and we are prepared to vote for him for as long as it takes.”
Additionally, 15 Republican members and incoming members who won in districts Biden won wrote a firm letter to their colleagues on Thursday saying they “are not open to any so-called shadow ‘consensus candidate’” and that they would vote for McCarthy “regardless of how many votes it takes.”
The letter, led by Rep.-elect Mike Lawler (R-NY), also warned that “a protracted floor fight over the Speakership will not only prevent” the House from being able to conduct any business but “will also send the wrong message to the American people at the very moment they entrusted us with governing.”
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We need a list of member's names - and more than 70 of the sleezebag RINOs or you are lying.
“The GOP is NEVER going to wake up.”
Trump has endorsed McCarthy saying that we should unite behind McCarthy.
Washington, D.C., is the entrance to hell.
The city motto is: “Abandon hope, all ye who enter in here!”
The uni-party lives and breathes.
Honestly, I think it would be better to give the Speakership to the Democrats.
There is no point in trying to govern with the party in such a state and the other houses so miserable.
good let’s have that fight. let’s get the uniparty out in the open so fear bound republican voters can see it in all it’s ugliness and corruption. let them see what they’ve been voting for all this time. btw, i predict the craven, corrupt, money grubbing McCarthy crew will fold like a cheap suit in a couple of votes, if it even comes to a vote.
stand strong Matt and Co.
why not force McCarthy to sign an agreement to fulfill x, y, z in exchange for the vote and get this over with??
Changed to an independent…never going back to the party that continues to backstab their base. Trump or DeSantis are the only ones I will vote for in 2024. Other than that they can kiss my @&&! I’m done with the stupid spineless POS party.
“why not force McCarthy to sign an agreement to fulfill x, y, z in exchange for the vote and get this over with??”
McCarthy will be elected. He’s already made deals behind everyone’s back.
I think Hannity or Jesse Waters should ask Andy Biggs if an attempt has been made to have McCarthy promise to fulfill certain promises ?
In WRITING !!!!!!
Why are McCarthy’s feet not being held to the fire ?
Jim Jordan is a better choice.
Growing Number of Republicans Vow to Only Vote for McCarthy in Speaker Race
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But yet the article doesn’t list who these critters are that were not going to vote for him but have changed their minds
I.o.w.
There ARE NO GROWING numbers.
But in fact . the truth is the exact opposite of what the headline proclaims
I.o.w.
Growing Number of Republicans Vow to NOT Vote for McCarthy in Speaker Race.
Weasel urinalists and Rinos.
they should make him sign a ‘contract with America’ that outlines every step necessary to adhere to conservative values and FIGHT on our behalf. I hear what dljordan is saying but you would think Gaetz, Biggs, Scalise, etc., would force his hand in exchange for their vote yet it doesn’t look like that’s happened
Nor are the colluders who continue to vote assholes into office, just to keep the seat Republican.
I’m telling you folks, they will cut a deal with Dems to
Get thr votes to make him speaker…
Kevin needs to renounce Paul Ryan and his Speakership as harram.
The GOPee is wokeup already.
The GOPe only ever finds the will to fight when it is against conservatives. Unfortunately, they outnumber us and we, again, are forced to settle for the lesser of two evils. McCarthy will be better than a Democrat but only slightly.
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