BREAKING -- Rep. Andy Biggs expected to launch leadership challenge against Kevin McCarthy
Biggs has been critical of McCarthy’s leadership in the minority, voicing concerns that the California Republican won’t prioritize issues important to the far-right flank of the party. CNN first reported the news of Biggs’s likely bid against McCarthy.
“I think we need to have a real discussion about whether he should be the speaker or not,” Biggs told reporters on Thursday. “I think that his statement recently that we shouldn't impeach Secretary Mayorkas indicates that maybe we're not going to be as aggressive going forward as we should be. I think we need to have a very positive statement of what we're going to accomplish and do, and I haven't seen that yet,” he added."That's — those are things that I think we should have a very frank discussion internally about, where we're going to be going forward.
“I think we don't even know if we're in the majority, so I think it's responsible to just look and see where the cards fall right now, and we don't know,” Rep.-elect George Santos said on Sunday. McCarthy has continued to express confidence in the likelihood of Republicans taking the majority despite the party falling significantly short of his projection last year that the GOP could pick up 60 seats.Tuesday’s leadership election is slated to be conducted via closed ballot and will only require a plurality of the conference to secure the nomination.
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