
Newt Gingrich on Tuesday urged House Republicans to vote down an internal rebellion against Speaker Kevin McCarthy and remove the instigator from their conference. "Rep. Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.) is an anti-Republican who has become actively destructive to the conservative movement," wrote Gingrich, a former Republican speaker, in a Washington Post op-ed. "Gaetz’s motion to remove McCarthy should be swiftly defeated, and then he should be expelled from the House Republican Conference." Gingrich's essay came just ahead of an expected vote on Gaetz's "motion to vacate," which could remove McCarthy...