Biggs continues to rattle McCarthy’s speakership bid

Republican Rep. Andy Biggs continued to criticize House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday in an attempt to further shake up his bid for president.

‘The McCarthy Machine is lying again to maintain power and silence challengers. The McCarthy Machine is truly the Deep State, the Establishment,” Biggs tweeted. “A McCarthy defeat would show a crack in this foundation and show that power can be decentralized from the leadership.”

Biggs had challenged McCarthy for the lead role in the House Republican caucus last month and lost, but he remains a thorn in the California Republican’s side as the speaker’s election won’t take place until May 3. January, after the new Congress is sworn in. -in.

Republican Rep. Andy Biggs (left) continued to criticize House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (right) on Monday in an attempt to further shake up his bid for president.

Biggs had challenged McCarthy for the party’s top spot in a closed-door vote in November and was unsuccessful. He and four other Republican members of the House said they planned to vote against McCarthy on January 3, and McCarthy can only lose four.

The Arizona Republican shared a Newsmax story on Sunday detailing a warning McCarthy had made: If he were not elected president, they would be “wasting” their majority.

“That’s going to set back our ability to secure the border,” McCarthy told Sunday Morning Futures. ‘That’s going to slow down our ability to become energy independent. That will delay our ability to repeal 87,000 IRS agents. That’s going to set back our ability to hold our government accountable.’

“There is no subpoena that can go out until that is done,” McCarthy also offered.

McCarthy has been waiting years to move up to the speaking position.

He ran for office in 2015 with the retirement of House Speaker John Boehner, but withdrew from the race after making controversial comments suggesting that the Republican investigations into Benghazi and Hillary Clinton were politically motivated to remove to one of the leading Democratic presidential contenders.

McCarthy finally assumed the leadership of the party in January 2019, after the Republicans lost control of the House and House Speaker Paul Ryan retired.

But Biggs and at least four other Republican members — Reps. Matt Gaetz, Ralph Norman, Bob Good and Matt Rosendale — say they will oppose his nomination on the House floor.

The way the math works, McCarthy can only lose four.

He needs 218 votes to win the presidency.

Republicans are likely to have 222 in the House once Colorado concludes a recount that leads Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, while Democrats have 213 seats.

The good news for McCarthy is that he has several prominent figures from the conservative movement and MAGA in his corner.

Both representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan have said they plan to endorse the Californian.

Leading Trump official Stephen Miller has pressured House Republicans to get in line.

Like Donald Trump Jr.

‘So in their quest to “own the establishment” by arresting Kevin McCarthy, Andy Biggs and others are actually empowering those who impeached Donald Trump. This is a Democratic dream come true for a Republican Congress. Cool move guys,’ Trump Jr. tweeted on Friday, highlighting a Breitbart article that said Republican Rep. Fred Upton, who supported Trump’s second impeachment trial, was being mentioned as a possible speaker candidate.

Upton is retiring from Congress, but a person does not have to be a member of the House to be elected president.

Politician first reported Upton’s whispers, and an Upton spokesperson told the publication that the retiring Republican congressman fully supports McCarthy’s run for president.

And last week, Fox News host Mark Levin labeled Biggs’ group the “gang of five spoilers” and called them “airheads.”