6:40 PM: In South Carolina, Rep. Nancy Mace faces challenger backed by Kevin McCarthy When eight House Republicans voted last year to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the speakership ...

Dan Hanlon, a former staffer of former President Trump, could launch a primary campaign against his most recent former boss, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — This time was supposed to be different.

Kevin McCarthy has been toppled in a right-wing ... that surprised many came from Ms Mace - a moderate Republican from South Carolina. She said afterwards: "I am looking for a Speaker who will ...

Republicans expressed happiness and relief to have elected Speaker Johnson so quickly on Friday, avoiding the lengthy process to elect Speaker McCarthy in the last Congress.

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The same wing of the GOP that ousted Kevin McCarthy is skeptical of Johnson ... Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Ralph Norman of South Carolina and Keith Self of Texas — initially voted against ...

One of the dissidents, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, told the BBC he simply ... "This ends in one of two ways: either Kevin McCarthy withdraws from the race or we construct a straitjacket ...