This is not new that you're going to have very weak speakers. There's a reason why Paul Ryan desperately did not want to become speaker. What what you have is the, I think, just the devolution of this party, almost a post Trump kind of extremism here. You know, last week was bad. That is just a preview of what the next two years are going to look like.
The dust from last week’s once-in-a-century, marathon voting session in the House has settled, and Kevin McCarthy is finally Speaker of the House — for now. But what’s next? We talk to Manu Raju, CNN’s Chief Congressional Correspondent, and Charlie Sykes, a former conservative talk radio host and a founder of The Bulwark, to make sense of it all.
They run through some of the colorful personalities in the House Republican Conference, unpack how the Republican Party unraveled and discuss the opportunity for the Democrats to emerge as unified party. And, of course, they make predictions about Trump, Biden and more in 2024.
You can find Kara and Nayeema on Twitter @karaswisher and @nayeema.
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