By: John McCormack – nationalreview.com – January 4, 2023

On Tuesday, 19 House Republicans repeatedly refused to vote to make House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy the speaker of the House. On the third and final inconclusive vote for speaker of the day, the 19 anti-McCarthy Republicans picked up a 20th vote, Byron Donalds of Florida.

But what exactly do these Republican holdouts want?

Texas’s Chip Roy, one of the original 19 rebels, offered this answer on the House floor yesterday: “I want the tools or I want the leadership to stop the swamp from running over the average American every single day.”

The statement is somewhat vague — the “leadership” Roy …

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Source: What Exactly Do McCarthy’s House GOP Opponents Want? | National Review