Traitor Kevin McCarthy Crushes Coup Plotter Andy Biggs For Nomination For House Speaker (Updated)

Traitor Kevin McCarthy may have won the Sedition Party’s nomination for House Speaker, but the vote signals that he is far short of the 218 votes he will need to be elected House Speaker.

My Machiavellian advice to Democrats is to withhold your votes or to vote “present,” and let the Sedition Party tear itself apart on multiple ballots with no clear winner. Let them demonstrate to Americans they are an ungovernable party of chaos. Eventually you may pick up a handful of GQP defections for whomever Democrats want to be House Speaker, and then Democrats can elect the House Speaker.

Wouldn’t this be fun: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Worried That Liz Cheney Could Be Speaker Of The House:

Marjorie Taylor Greene is worried that few Republicans might make a deal with Democrats to get someone like Liz Cheney elected to be the next Speaker of the House.

Greene said on Steve Bannon’s podcast:

“We’ve already been through two years where we saw Republicans — Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger — cross over and join the Democrats and produce a Jan. 6 committee,” Greene said.

“The danger is this, do we want to watch a challenge for Speaker of the House simply because the ‘Never Kevin’ movement — just like we’ve seen a ‘Never Trump” movement — do we want to see that challenge open the door to Nancy Pelosi handing the gavel to Liz Cheney?”

If the Republican majority is small enough, a handful of Republicans could team up with Democrats to elect someone other than Kevin McCarthy to be the next Speaker of the House.

[It] is not out of the realm of possibility that a few Republicans could break away and team up with Democrats to support a different candidate. The Republican majority will be tiny, so any defections could cost McCarthy and the GOP the speakership.

Deny Traitor Kevin McCarthy the one thing he most desires. Crush his dreams of ever being Speaker, he deserves it.

CNN reports, Latest on the midterm elections as House remains undecided: McCarthy wins GOP nomination for speaker, with 31 Republicans voting against him:

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy has won his party’s nomination for speaker, beating conservative challenger Rep. Andy Biggs in a 188 – 31 vote, according to multiple sources in the room.

It was a secret ballot, and McCarthy only needed a simple majority.

While Biggs’ challenge was always seen as a long shot, the number of Republicans voting for him shows how much work McCarthy has to do to win over holdouts between now and January, when he will need to win a majority of the entire House. 

Remember: A week after Election Day, CNN has still not yet projected whether Republicans will win the House. Republicans are closing in on the 218 seats needed for a House majority, but there are still several races yet to be called.

But McCarthy was confident he would win a majority of House GOP votes on Tuesday to lead his conference – and that he will earn in January the 218 votes necessary to hold the speaker’s gavel.

Three House Republicans — Kat Cammack of Florida, Kelly Armstrong of North Dakota and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania — nominated McCarthy for leader, arguing that he has worked harder than anyone, and that party unity is the only path to victory.

Biggs, a former chair of the GQP House Freedom (sic) Caucus – more accurately the GQP House Fascist Caucus, announced on Newsmax on Monday night that he would run against McCarthy, while acknowledging it would be “tough” to beat someone who has “raised a lot of money” to elect his colleagues.

UPDATE: NBC News reports that the man most responsible for the GQP failure to take control of the Senate, “Medicare Fraud” Sen. Rick Scott, will challenge the “Grim Reaper of Democracy,” Mitch McConnell for Minority Leader. Sen. Rick Scott will challenge McConnell for top Senate leadership post:

Sen. Rick Scott announced a challenge to Sen. Mitch McConnell for the top Republican leadership job in the Senate during a meeting of the GOP members on Tuesday.

A spokesman for Scott, of Florida, confirmed the announcement.

“The status quo is broken and big change is needed,” Scott said in a tweet. “It’s time for new leadership in the Senate that unites Republicans to advance a bold conservative agenda. That’s why I’m running to be the Senate Republican Leader.”

The 11-point plan Scott devised as his GQP agenda no doubt cost Republicans votes. McConnell wanted a “no agenda” strategy.

The Kentucky Republican has held the leadership position since 2007, making him the longest-serving GOP leader in Senate history.

Going into the midterm elections Tuesday, McConnell appeared to have a firm grasp on the leader’s job and Republicans appeared poised to take control of the Senate. But Democrats were able to flip control of the Pennsylvania seat, effectively blocking Republicans from wresting the chamber.

Scott’s decision comes after he met privately with [Coup Plotters and few Tea Partiers] Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, to discuss a challenge to McConnell.

It follows a lengthy feud between Scott and McConnell over strategy and vision for the Republican caucus.

UPDATE: The “Grim Reaper of Democracy,” Mitch McConnell, drinks the blood of his vanquished enemies from their skull. The Sedition Caucus failed to kill the dark lord; they will pay for there disloyalty. McConnell defeats Scott in last-minute race for Senate GOP leader:

Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to elect Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as their leader over National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott (R-Fla.) who announced his desire to replace McConnell at an acrimonious conference meeting Tuesday.

A majority of GOP senators voted to elect McConnell leader after a motion backed by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and other conservatives to delay the leadership election until after the Dec. 6 Georgia runoff failed.

The final vote was 37-10, with one voting “present.”

Scott’s last-minute challenge to McConnell represented the toughest competition the senior Republican senator has faced for the top leadership job since he became Senate minority leader in 2007.

Even so, McConnell wound up winning by a comfortable margin, retaining the support of many GOP colleagues after he raised more than $200 million to help Republicans win back the Senate majority this election cycle.

Two outside groups affiliated with McConnell, Senate Leadership Fund and One Nation, spent $363 million on Senate races, according to a person familiar with their fundraising record, significantly more than what Scott raised at the NRSC.

McConnell on Tuesday rejected Scott’s criticism that his decision not to put out an agenda before Election Day hurt GOP candidates.

“Every one of our candidates knew what they were for, expressed it quite clearly. It’s pretty obvious, and all of you have been writing about it, what happened. We underperformed among independents and moderates because their impression of many of the people in our party in leadership roles is that they’re involved in chaos, negativity, excessive attacks, and it frightened independent and moderate Republican voters,” he said, in what appeared to be a reference to former President Trump’s political tactics.

“We saw that, which is why you all recall I never predicted a red wave,” he told reporters Tuesday. “There was no wave.”

McConnell said that Republicans were “crushed by independent voters” in Arizona and New Hampshire.
“We learned some lessons about this and I think the lesson is pretty clear: Senate races are different, candidate quality — you recall I said in August — is important,” he said.

He also reiterated that he felt confident he would have enough votes to beat Scott, a Trump ally.

He maintained the support of the top members of his leadership team, Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate GOP Conference Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), who themselves have significant influence among GOP colleagues.

Thune and Barrasso were expected to win re-election to serve new terms as No. 2- and No. 3-ranking leaders, respectively.