The frontrunner to replace Paul Ryan is trying a unique strategy to rally the GOP base around him

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• House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy wants to be the next Speaker of the House when current Speaker Paul Ryan's tenure comes to an end.
• McCarthy has a conservative challenger in House Freedom Caucus founding member Jim Jordan.
• To court the Republican base, McCarthy is hammering big tech companies for what many conservatives think is bias against and censorship of conservative voices on social media platforms.

WASHINGTON — The race to become the next Speaker of the House and succeed Paul Ryan as the top Republican in the lower chamber has been heating up for some time.

Any Republican who wants to wield the gavel will have to receive President Donald Trump's blessing and curry significant favor with the GOP base.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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