• If they really dislike Kevin McCarthy that much, they should make him speaker.
• House Republicans flailed on the first day of the new Congress, failing to elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker even though he had the support of a large majority of them. In the first several rounds of votes, he continued to have far more Republicans behind him than anyone else. Steve Scalise, who has been the House Republicans’ second-in-command, may emerge as a consensus candidate, although there is not really much to choose between the two of them. An unimpressive start to what will likely be a rocky two years.
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