House Republican: The only alternative to McCarthy would be an outsider

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) declared to CNN that if an alternate to Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) needs to be chosen, it will most likely be someone from outside the House. …

According to the Republican, replacing McCarthy with someone inside the House would be damaging to the position of House Speaker itself in the future.

“I don’t think there’s enough people that are willing to set the precedent that you can work for four years and bring a party from the minority to the majority and then get jettisoned at the end. Nobody’s ever going to put the work in if that happens,” he said.

[I don’t think there’s enough people to elect an outsider, either, because it would be an insane thing to try. I addressed that earlier in this post. — Ed]