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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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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.
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Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Jim Jordan announces bid for House Speaker after McCarthy ouster
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Frog meets scorpion: House Republicans threaten to quit Problem Solvers Caucus after McCarthy ouster
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Only Sin That Republicans Can't Forgive
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Stephen Kruiser / PJ Media:
The Morning Briefing: Please Welcome to the Main Stage—YOUR Republican Dumpster Fire!
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NBC News:
Kevin McCarthy's ‘original sin’: What drove the House speaker's historic downfall
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Being Nominated for House Speaker Is Becoming a Real Possibility
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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
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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
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New York Times:
House Is Paralyzed, With No Speaker After McCarthy Ouster
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Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Ramaswamy says chaos not ‘a bad thing’ after McCarthy ousted as speaker
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Politico:
McHenry ordered Pelosi to leave her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday — The former speaker blasted the move as a “sharp departure from tradition.”
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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October 2023 Winthrop Poll Results
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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:
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.
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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 …
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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.
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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” …
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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 …
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