More Republicans Dig in for McCarthy

An increasing number of House Republicans are vowing they’ll only vote for Kevin McCarthy for speaker, and that they’ll keep doing so “as long as it takes,” Politico reports.

“Two lawmakers said that their group of roughly 70 members met on Thursday and came to the consensus that they were prepared to vote for McCarthy for as long as necessary, that they had ‘strong reservations’ about potential rules changes that the GOP leader is considering in order to shore up his support. “

“The two lawmakers said the group would pull support for rules changes if McCarthy were not ‘expediently’ elected as speaker.”