McCarthy and his allies have been negotiating with the holdouts who threaten to keep the gavel away from the California Republican.
While an overwhelming majority of Republicans want to elect McCarthy as speaker, roughly 15 have put the outcome in serious doubt. McCarthy can afford to lose only four Republicans in Tuesday’s floor vote, and the razor-thin margin has emboldened staunch conservatives within the House Freedom Caucus, who have made specific demands in exchange for their votes.
While McCarthy has made numerous concessions in an effort to win the holdouts’ votes, including changes to a provision that could limit his time as speaker, nine additional Republicans signed a letter late Sunday calling McCarthy’s proposal “insufficient,” further signaling that his ascent remains unassured.“The times call for radical departure from the status quo — not a continuation of the past, and ongoing, Republican failures,” the nine wrote about McCarthy.
the Freedom Caucus from the mainstream Republican Party, McCarthy instead embraced the group, even after Rep. Jim Jordan in 2015 led the group in opposition to“[McCarthy is] a very strong relationship guy,” said Frank Luntz, a GOP pollster who is close friends with McCarthy. “Most congressional leaders, the higher they climb, the less they listen. Kevin’s been exactly the opposite, and that’s been the secret of his success.
Rep. Ralph Norman , one of the five Republican members who have banded together to say they will vote against McCarthy, said Monday afternoon that he is still going to vote against him unless McCarthy adopts a seven-year balanced budget amendment. “The upcoming speaker vote is about more than defeating McCarthy and electing a better leader in January. This is about striking a blow against the uni-party swamp cartel, and defeating a Republican system that is hostile to conservatives, resents its base voters, and resists empowering individual members in order to retain power in the hands of an elite few,” Good wrote.
“In any negotiation, the term itself means there’s give and take. And this has so far only been take and this has so far been give, give, give,” said Rep. David Joyce , who chairs the pragmatic GOP Governance Group. “That’s the constant game that they played for the 10 years I’ve been here, that whenever you get to the goal line, they move the goal posts.
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