NOTE: This article was updated on Jan. 6, 2023. It incorporates testimony to the January 6th committee and FBI, court proceedings, interviews, social media tracks, media reports, and more material from journalist Kevin James Shay’s book, Operation Chaos: The Capitol Attack...
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McCarthy, who was elected to Congress in 2006, held the top post for nine months before a deal he made to secure the speakership led to his downfall. His fight to win the gavel when Republicans took control of the House in January included 15 rounds of votes, and foreshadowed the limit...
McCarthy has focused his energies not on policy but on winning the House gavel and a Republican majority. Shadowed by Kevin Spacey years ago as the actor studied for his role as a duplicitouscongressman in “House of Cards,”McCarthy operates like an old-school ward leader. He knows regional...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, at left, speaks with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in June, as the House votes on creating a committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection. Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Hurdles on the track to becoming speaker ...
The GOP’s slim majority, though, led to an embarrassing fight for the speaker’s gavel in January.After 15 tries, his party finally elected him to the speaker’s chair. But the honeymoon quickly ended after McCarthy repeatedly relied on bipartisanship ...
Allegedly sucker punching a member of his own party for voting to oust him, which McCarthy denies Anyway, the former Speaker added a new entry to the “What kind of cringey stuff is Kevin up to today” archives on Sunday, when he posted a video to his X account in which he made cle...
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McCarthy predicted that "I don’t think that she’s [Cheney’s] going to win" and "I think it’s going to be a referendum on the January 6 Committee." And pointing to inflation, a top issue with Americans, the House GOP leader asked,"Why wouldn't Cheney spend her time on t...
play in that effort," McCarthy wrote. "I never could have imagined the journey when I first threw my hat into the ring. I go knowing I left it all on the field — as always, with a smile on my face. And looking back, I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Only in America....