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FILE - House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pauses during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. The new 118th Congress, with Republicans in control of the House, begins Jan. 3, 2023, but the first task for the GOP is electing a new speaker and whether House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., can overcome opposition from conservatives in his own ranks to get the job. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Time for Republicans to unify and elect Kevin McCarthy as House speaker

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden talks with reporters outside of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn. Biden is heading to Kentucky to visit a notoriously dilapidated bridge connecting Ohio and Kentucky to promote his administration's infrastructure law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden calls House GOP disarray on speaker ‘embarrassing’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

GOP needs big changes to win

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. The new 118th Congress, with Republicans in control of the House, begins Jan. 3, 2023, but the first task for the GOP is electing a new speaker and whether House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., can overcome opposition from conservatives in his own ranks to get the job. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Kevin McCarthy’s fate on the line, House conservatives warn speaker’s election could take days

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Rep. Jim Jordan, R- Ohio, speaks on behalf of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for House Speaker on the opening day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Conservative firebrand Jim Jordan makes pitch for McCarthy in second bid to elect House speaker

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., stands on the floor after he failed to get enough votes to become the new House Speaker during the opening day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Jan 3, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Thwarted again: Anti-McCarthy Republicans dig in, block him from speaker on second ballot

By Susan Ferrechio, Kerry Picket and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., is followed by reporters as he heads to the House Floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

McCarthy’s chances for speaker are diminishing, but which members stand in his way?

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks from the speaker's office on the opening day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

House conservative faction blocks McCarthy’s bid for speaker

By Susan Ferrechio, Kerry Picket and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks to the media at Trump Tower, Monday, Nov. 21, 2016 in New York, after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Newt Gingrich slams Kevin McCarthy’s detractors as ‘kamikazes’ attempting to sink GOP

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., makes a point from the Republican side as the House Judiciary Committee holds an emergency meeting to advance a series of Democratic gun control measures, called the Protecting Our Kids Act, in response to mass shootings in Texas and New York, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘I’m a no’: Matt Gaetz says Kevin McCarthy unable to convince GOP holdouts on eve of Speaker vote

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump pauses as he speaks at a rally in Florence, Ariz., on Jan. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) **FILE**

Trump takes fire from right after blaming abortion issue for GOP midterm defeats

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rep. Scott Perry, Pennsylvania Republican, is among the leaders of a nore signed by nine current and incoming House Republicans saying Leader Kevin McCarthy, California Republican, hasn't done enough to earn their vote for speaker on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Nine more House Republicans call McCarthy’s concessions insufficient

By Haris Alic — Special to The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, as the House is considering President Joe Biden's $1.85 trillion-and-growing domestic policy package. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

McCarthy’s dream of becoming House speaker in disarray: ‘A promotion shouldn’t be failure’s chaser’

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Federal sentencing for crack and powder cocaine, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson coy on 2024 presidential run, says it won’t be Trump

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

U.S. House Committee for Oversight and Reform ranking member Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., listens during a hearing on the Washington Commanders' workplace conduct, Wednesday, June 22, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The congressional investigation of the NFL's Washington Commanders will end when Republicans take over early next year. Comer issued a statement Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, saying simply, ‘It’s over.&quot; (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

White House blocks GOP oversight requests, tells incoming chairmen to resubmit next congress

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

April Chapman, a small business owner, poses for a photo Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022, at her home in Conyers, Ga. Chapman who lives in metro Atlanta switched from Democrat to Republican after the 2012 election. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)

Black support for GOP ticked up in this year’s midterms

By Ayanna Alexander and Gary Fields - Associated Press

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

GOP’s 2024 underdogs hope for a lucky break against Trump, brush off poll woes

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left, confers with Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., during a news conference about the appropriations process by the majority Democrats to fund the government, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lying in wait: Scalise lurks as McCarthy struggles lock up House Speaker role

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas on Nov. 19, 2022, (AP Photo/John Locher) ** FILE **

DeSantis coalition emerges for a run against Trump

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., attends a Senate Rules and Administration Committee meeting on the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. The bill is a response to the Jan. 6 insurrection and former President Donald Trump's efforts to find a way around the Electoral Count Act, the 19th-century law that, along with the Constitution, governs how states and Congress certify electors and declare presidential election winners. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell says Trump turned off GOP voters by making party look ‘sort of nasty’

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times