Conservative hardliners have started to float potential alternative candidates should House Speaker Kevin McCarthy be ousted, as internal frustration with the California Republican has grown, according to four GOP sources familiar with the conversations.
But the rebels still have not coalesced around a single candidate and it’s not clear anyone else could get 218 votes – the same problem they ran into during the speaker’s race.
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