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What The Speakership Vote Tells Us About The GOP

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Is McCarthy's WIP Team Making Deals With Moderates?

The problem for the GOP is it's kind of like there are three groups, right? There's like these 20 members roughly who are anti-establishment. And then you have the kind of purple seat ones I referred to earlier, a dozen or two,. Some of whom are moderate, but are electorally interested in not making the House look like a total show. Then you have Whichever is left, right, which is the majority of the caucus, but not enough on its own to get anything done.

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