'They Can Totally Undo Him': A Freedom Caucus Founder Dishes on Kevin McCarthy

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On the surface, Kevin McCarthy looks like a shoo-in to become the next Speaker of the House. He won an internal vote of the conference 188-31, over right-winger Andy Biggs of Arizona, to retain the party’s top leadership post. If Republicans just stick together during a House floor vote in January, and McCarthy will get the gavel.

But that’s a big if.

In the red-ripple election of 2022, Republicans regained control of Congress by just a handful of seats — meaning that the same internal GOP divisions that bedeviled the reign of former Republican Speaker John Boeher could soon come back into play. They could even deny McCarthy his long-coveted speakership.

The Freedom Caucus is a small group of 30-odd hardline right wingers inside the Republican House conference. Wielding legislative power in Washington requires being able to pass routine, party-line votes. But the Freedom Caucus is infamous for withholding its support on such pro-forma measures and grinding GOP governance to a halt.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/totally-undo-him-freedom-caucus-144254996.html

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1. I hope that Quevin gets defeated

And that the Republic House caucus is thrown into chaos. Ideally some sort of extremist ascends so we get to see the true face of those nuts and get to cast them into oblivion for several cycles come 2024. We have the Senate and the Presidency, and I think we'll hold. I also think that Warnock will win in GA, which will negate either Sinema or Manchin, strengthening our position.