Rep. Andy Biggs is running for Speaker of the House, challenging GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy for the top role and exposing ongoing rifts within the party.
Biggs wrote in the Daily Caller that the GOP has a chance to “dislodge the establishment and reinvigorate the America First movement that was founded by former President Donald Trump. Yes, that Donald Trump.”
Current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will not be speaker in the next Congress. The new House in January will have 222 Republican seats, a majority in the 435-member chamber. But it's a smaller majority than the party had expected, which could complicate the speaker vote. During the November internal party vote, McCarthy beat Biggs 188-31, according to news reports of the conference meeting.
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