Freedom Caucus pushing McCarthy to back long-shot effort to remove Pelosi as House speaker - Fox News

Kevin McCarthy, R-Ca., discusses the impact of the Democrats majority in the House under Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

McCarthy, R-Calif., on "The Ingraham Angle" Wednesday night said he is not interested in pursuing the move against the speaker, essentially dashing any hope the Freedom Caucus members -- who occupy just about 40 of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives -- would have had of gaining traction in their effort.

"If we were able to remove Nancy Pelosi you'd have another Democrat.

These Democrats could actually vote against Nancy Pelosi, use it in their campaigns to say they're not with her, even though they vote with her 95% of the time.".

MODERATE DEMOCRATS PRESSURE PELOSI, HOUSE LEADERSHIP TO MOVE ON NEW CORONAVIRUS BILL: 'STOP THE STUPIDITY'.

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., however, prodded Republican leadership to engage with the long-shot effort to remove Pelosi in a Wednesday night tweet.

ANDY BIGGS: NANCY PELOSI NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM HER POST AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.

Nancy Pelosi to leave her office as Speaker of the House?" he said.

Justin Amash, L-Mich., would need to universally stand behind a motion to remove Pelosi and court 17 Democrats to join them.

"Do you know that there are fewer Democrats in the House since Nancy Pelosi held the gavel.

At that moment we needed 19 seats to win the majority, today we only need 17," McCarthy said. "We won every special election we played in and that was in Democrat seats that Democrats won by 9 more than points and it happened to be in California.".