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What The Speakership Vote Tells Us About The GOP

FiveThirtyEight Politics

CHAPTER

The House Speaker's Vote

Catherine Faulders: Why did it take 15 votes to get Kevin McCarthy elected? What does that process tell us about the two years ahead and the Republican Party more broadly? Then we are going to talk about scandals. One new congressman avoided his scandals, meaningfully affecting his career until after the election was over. So what is going on with George Santos? And will he stay in office now that it seems that he's lied about almost every aspect of his biography?

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