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12:25 PM ET, October 4, 2023

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Andrew Solender / Axios:
GOP tensions explode after McCarthy bows out of speaker race  —  House Republicans were distraught, furious and concerned for the future of their party after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) announced he won't run for speaker again after being ousted on Tuesday.
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John F. Harris / Politico:
The House GOP Is a Failed State  —  Kevin McCarthy's ouster is dramatic evidence, if redundant, about the state of the modern GOP.  —  At the start, Kevin McCarthy's speakership was effectively an optical illusion.  At the end, it was an exercise in self-abasement.  Francis Chung/POLITICO
Politico:
'He's about clicks': Florida Republicans furious at Gaetz  —  They called him divisive and an attention-seeker.  —  MIAMI — Florida's congressional Republicans are done with Matt Gaetz.  —  They left the House chamber last night furious after Gaetz led seven other GOP members …
Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
House bipartisan caucus risks collapse after McCarthy ouster … The Republicans say he was punished for “doing the right thing” after advancing a stopgap funding bill on a bipartisan basis.  — Frustrated members said that Democrats in the group, which is aimed at finding bipartisan solutions …
Discussion: HotAir, Raw Story and New Jersey Globe
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Kevin McCarthy's embarrassing lesson: MAGA torches everything it touches — and will destroy itself  —  Democrats get it: Don't get in the way when your opponents are self-destructing  —  In the wake of Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., moving to vacate Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. …
Washington Post:
As McCarthy tumbled toward defeat, Trump did not defend his speakership  —  Trump's limited support for the man he famously called ‘my Kevin’ encapsulated a relationship that has ebbed and flowed over the years  —  As Kevin McCarthy battled this week to keep the job he would eventually lose …
Politico:
The rudderless GOP careens toward 2024  —  Kevin McCarthy's undoing underscores a bigger problem — the inability to govern itself — that risks imperiling the party's chances in 2024.  —  There's no House speaker, Republicans are tearing each other to shreds over Kevin McCarthy's ouster …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Kevin McCarthy is GOP incompetence made flesh  —  No Republican equipped to be speaker would want the job in the first place. … Republican Kevin McCarthy became the first House Speaker to be removed midterm by his own caucus on Tuesday.  He quickly announced that he would not run again; his brief speakership is over.
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Texas Republican will nominate Trump for Speaker of the House
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Only Sin That Republicans Can't Forgive
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Ramaswamy says chaos not ‘a bad thing’ after McCarthy ousted as speaker
Stephen Kruiser / PJ Media:
The Morning Briefing: Please Welcome to the Main Stage—YOUR Republican Dumpster Fire!
Discussion: Townhall
The Daily Beast:
Trump Being Nominated for House Speaker Is Becoming a Real Possibility
John L. Dorman / Insider:
Kevin McCarthy's CBS interview, where he blamed Democrats for the near-government shutdown, tanked any hope of them saving his speakership
Discussion: Twitchy, Bloomberg and Washington Post
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
G.O.P. Candidates Split Over Kevin McCarthy's Ouster as House Speaker
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Ella Lee / The Hill:
New York judge issues gag order after Trump attacks clerk on Truth Social
New York Times:
House Is Paralyzed, With No Speaker After McCarthy Ouster
David Paleologos / USA Today:
Nikki Haley vaults to second place in New Hampshire in new GOP primary poll  —  Today's Suffolk University/Boston Globe/USA TODAY poll (yes, that's a mouthful) will be touted by Nikki Haley's campaign.  She's rocketed into second place with the support of 19% of likely New Hampshire Republican Primary voters …
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USA Today:
Exclusive: Nikki Haley surges past DeSantis in New Hampshire as Trump maintains lead
Politico:
McHenry ordered Pelosi to leave her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday  —  The former speaker blasted the move as a “sharp departure from tradition.”
New York Times:
Giuliani's Drinking, Long a Fraught Subject, Has Trump Prosecutors' Attention  —  The former mayor's drinking has become an investigative subplot in Donald Trump's federal case over 2020 election interference.  But long before that, friends had grown deeply concerned.
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Politico:
Playbook: The House GOP's fight may have just begun
Politico:
Jordan becomes first to announce run for speaker  —  His candidacy will likely run right into Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), who is also considering a speakership bid and has worked to court conservatives.
Discussion: IJR
Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
Exclusive: US will transfer weapons seized from Iran to Ukraine  —  The US will transfer thousands of seized Iranian weapons and rounds of ammunition to Ukraine, in a move that could help to alleviate some of the critical shortages facing the Ukrainian military as it awaits more money …
Discussion: Politico, TASS and Political Wire
Katie Sobko / NorthJersey.com:
Bob Menendez's wife hit and killed a man while driving on Bogota's Main Street in 2018  —  Nadine Arslanian Menendez, federally indicted in a bribery scheme with her husband, Sen. Bob Menendez, struck and killed a man while driving her Mercedes-Benz on Main Street in Bogota in December 2018.
Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Right-Wing Brit Broadcaster Arrested Over Rumble Rant  —  Laurence Fox's arrest comes after he went on an unrelated, on-air sexist tirade that got him fired.  —  Right-wing British political activist and actor Laurence Fox was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of “conspiring to commit criminal damage” …
Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue:
FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO PLANE CRASH INVOLVING NEWBERG HOME  —  Shortly before 7 p.m., multiple callers to 911 reported seeing a small airplane spiraling toward the ground and crashing near North Cedar Street in Newberg.  Firefighters were dispatched to the scene and located the airplane …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Support for Third U.S. Political Party Up to 63%  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty-three percent of U.S. adults currently agree with the statement that the Republican and Democratic parties do “such a poor job” of representing the American people that “a third major party is needed.”
 
 
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