Kevin McCarthy will headline event in Lincoln for Mike Flood

McCarthy is positioned to change into Speaker of the Home if Republicans acquire majority management following the November elections.

The California Republican has been below fireplace not too long ago for his refusal to cooperate with subpoenas to look earlier than the Home particular committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol whereas Congress was assembly to certify the election of President Joe Biden.

McCarthy had been in touch with former President Donald Trump in the course of the day’s occasions.  

“For Home Republican leaders to conform to take part on this political stunt would change the Home eternally,” McCarthy wrote in a latest op-ed for the Wall Avenue Journal shared with Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who additionally declined to honor a subpoena to look earlier than the particular committee.

The Home committee issued the subpoenas earlier this month. 

Flood is matched towards Democratic candidate Patty Pansing Brooks of Lincoln in a June 28 particular election to fill the remaining six months of the time period vacated by former Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry when he resigned from the Home following his conviction on costs that he lied to federal officers about unlawful overseas marketing campaign contributions to his 2016 reelection marketing campaign.

Flood and Pansing Brooks will meet once more in November in a rematch for election to a brand new two-year time period, starting in January.  

The 2 candidates have been chosen by celebration leaders to fulfill within the particular election and nominated by main election voters to compete within the November common election.