'Don't give promises you can't deliver': GOP lawmakers warn Johnson not to ape McCarthy

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) faces a massive difficulty in tomorrow's vote to keep him in the gavel. And according to Axios, the more moderate faction of House Republicans warned him not to repeat the folly of his predecessor, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

Specifically, they told him not to give the far-right flank rule changes that benefit them at the expense of the rest of the caucus, simply as a condition of getting their votes — something that ultimately destroyed McCarthy's speakership as he gave a renegade band of lawmakers...