Interesting paragraph from the Fox post
In a curious development, Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., also sent a letter to House Republican Conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., urging a full vetting of all leadership candidates to avoid a repeat of 1998, when the conference selected then-Rep. Bob Livingston in November to succeed outgoing House Speaker Newt Gingrich. It then emerged Livingston had been conducting an affair. Jones asked that any candidate who has committed “misdeeds” withdraw.
That is the real reason.
Both Jones and Ellmers are from NC. Jones is a bit of a loose cannon and hated by leadership. He just might have spooked McCarthy. And of course if McCarthy is diddling a Congresswoman no doubt he has been around the track with an intern or two. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.