McCarthy to GOP caucus: Do you really want Dems to pick the next Speaker?

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told Newsmax that Democrats could end up choosing the next speaker if members of the GOP conference “play games.”

McCarthy discussed on Monday’s “Spicer & Co.” how he is trying to assure receiving enough votes for House speaker, despite at least five Republican members so far refusing to support him. …

“We have to speak as one voice. We will only be successful if we work together, or we’ll lose individually,” McCarthy told co-hosts Sean Spicer and Lindsay Keith. “This is very fragile — that we are the only stopgap for this Biden administration.

“And if we don’t do this right, the Democrats can take the majority. If we play games on the floor, the Democrats can end up picking who the speaker is.”