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What The Speakership Vote Tells Us About The GOP

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Trump and the Freedom Caucus

Trump was constantly trying to whip votes on this since before Monday or Tuesday. Matt Gates is literally nominating Donald Trump as a candidate, and he got one vote. You can imagine Trump does not like that to see his name on a board losing. It was really remarkable because there was Lauren Bober, the Bob Goods of the World who didn't even want to take his calls.

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