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Republicans should consider a speaker who doesn’t want the job

By Timothy P. Carney

Published January 4, 2023 5:24pm ET

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Republicans should consider a speaker who doesn’t want the job — With a wafer-thin majority and an anti-establishment fervor holding sway, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is unable to lock up the speakership. It takes a majority of all members voting in order to become speaker, and so 90% of a slim minority doesn’t do the trick. Dissident Republicans have voted for Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Jim […]

With a wafer-thin majority and an anti-establishment fervor holding sway, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is unable to lock up the speakership. It takes a majority of all members voting in order to become speaker, and so 90% of a slim minority doesn’t do the trick.

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