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4:50 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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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 …
Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Trump is not ruling out being the new House speaker  —  Believe it or not, the House speaker doesn't actually have to be serving in the House.  —  Trump addresses calls for him to be the next House speaker  —  Does Donald Trump want to be speaker of the House?
Lauren Sforza / The Hill:
Gaetz knocks Speaker pro tem for sending lawmakers home to ‘cry for a week’  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is already taking aim at Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C), saying that he should not send lawmakers home for the next week.  —  “I do have to offer some pretty sharp criticism …
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
Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Cut Off Their Own Heads
Dan Balz / Washington Post:   McCarthy ouster exposes the Republican Party's destructive tendencies
Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Jim Jordan announces bid for House Speaker after McCarthy ouster
CNN:
Scalise and Jordan launch bids for House speaker after McCarthy ouster
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Frog meets scorpion: House Republicans threaten to quit Problem Solvers Caucus after McCarthy ouster
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Kevin McCarthy's embarrassing lesson: MAGA torches everything it touches — and will destroy itself
Discussion: Raw Story, Advocate and Morning Shots
Washington Post:
As McCarthy tumbled toward defeat, Trump did not defend his speakership
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
RNC chief on GOP infighting: 'I don't know how this helps us beat Joe Biden'
Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
Jim Jordan And Steve Scalise Are Running For House Speaker
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Republicans watch McCarthy ouster with alarm, disbelief
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Stephen Kruiser / PJ Media:
The Morning Briefing: Please Welcome to the Main Stage—YOUR Republican Dumpster Fire!
Discussion: Townhall
Quinnipiac University Poll:
PA 2024 Elections: Casey Leads McCormick In U.S. Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Pennsylvania Poll Finds; Race For The White House: Biden vs. Trump Matchup Barely Budges  —  mail_outline  —  Roughly two weeks after Republican David McCormick announced he would challenge incumbent Democratic …
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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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Kelly Garrity / Politico:
Giuliani: ‘I have never had an alcohol problem’  —  Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani vehemently denied having a drinking problem Wednesday, following the Times report.  —  Former Trump lawyer and adviser Rudy Giuliani vehemently denied having a drinking problem Wednesday …
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and Political Wire
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
Giuliani sues Biden for defamation over ‘Russian pawn’ remark  —  Rudy Giuliani sued President Biden for defamation Wednesday over his comments calling the former New York City mayor a “Russian pawn” during a 2020 presidential debate.  —  The 16-page lawsuit, filed in New Hampshire state court …
Discussion: CNBC, Insider, UPI, The Messenger and Law & Crime
New York Times:
Inside the Menendez Indictment: A Mercedes and a Secretive Fatal Crash  —  A 2018 fatal car crash in Bogota, N.J., drew no media attention and resulted in no charges.  The driver was the soon-to-be wife of Senator Robert Menendez.  —  It was a cold evening in December 2018, and Nadine Arslanian …
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Matt Friedman / Politico:
Menendez's wife struck and killed a man while driving in 2018: Reports  —  Nadine Arslanian Menendez, whose Mercedes was severely damaged, was not taken into custody or tested for drugs and alcohol, according to The Record.  —  Nadine Arslanian Menendez, the wife and co-defendant …
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Nancy Pelosi evicted from her private office in the Capitol by interim House speaker  —  McHenry assumed the temporary speakership after now-former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted on Tuesday  —  Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was evicted from her private Capitol office by the new speaker pro-tempore.
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CNN:
McCarthy behind move to kick Pelosi out of her office, sources say — so he can move into it
Politico:
McHenry ordered Pelosi to leave her Capitol hideaway office by Wednesday
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Biden Cancels an Additional $9 Billion in Student Loan Debt  —  The move comes just three days after student loan repayments resumed following a three-year pause.  —  President Biden canceled an additional $9 billion in student debt on Wednesday as repayments started up again this month after a three-year pause.
Discussion: Washington Post and The Hill
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The White House:
President Biden Announces an Additional $9 Billion in Student Debt Relief for 125,000 Americans
Siladitya Ray / Forbes:
Student Loans: Biden Announces Extra $9 Billion In Debt Relief For 125,000 Americans
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 …
emptywheel:
Elon Musk's Machine for Fascism: A Tale of Three Elections  —  Since the spring (when I first started writing this post), I've been trying to express what I think Elon Musk intended to do with his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, to turn it into a Machine for Fascism.
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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Mitch McConnell's hope for the House: ‘Whoever the next speaker is gets rid of the motion to vacate’
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Scalise enters Speaker's race
New York Times:
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