Paul Ryan is facing renewed Republican pressure to promptly step down as House speaker after last week's failure to pass a massive farm bill amid disagreements on immigration. Mulvaney suggested an early speakership vote would also force Democrats to vote for or against their leader, Nancy Pelosi, as an added benefit. Republicans successfully used that strategy last year in a special House race for a GOP-held seat in suburban Atlanta. McCarthy dropped his 2015 bid to replace former House Speaker John Boehner because he clearly didn’t have the votes. Trump -- who recently referred to McCarthy as “my Kevin” -- is at least publicly keeping out of the leadership race talk.

Source: Fox News May 22, 2018 19:03 UTC