Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, explained that the Republicans refusing to support Kevin McCarthy are preventing the party from moving its agenda forward.
NEWT GINGRICH:
They're not really blackmailing McCarthy. They're blackmailing the conference. On the votes yesterday, they were losing 202 to 20. And in a healthy, free society, you'd figure a 202 to 20 votes tells you something. Butand decided that they can not only blackmail the Republican conference. In effect, they're blackmailing the American people. Remember, we didn't get the vote yesterday to repeal the 87,000 IRS agents.
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