“As Kevin McCarthy navigates a spending fight with his speakership on the line, some of his critics are privately mulling who they could back if the California Republican loses his gavel,” Politico reports.
“Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC), a member of the Freedom Caucus, told Politico he had a name in mind — which he declined to disclose — though he argued the conference’s immediate focus should be on the spending fight, where conservatives are pushing for steeper spending cuts.
”“Bishop said he had ‘muttered’ the name he has in mind to a couple of other people and ‘have found surprisingly that they have been thinking very much the same thing.'”