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Politics Podcast: What The Speakership Vote Tells Us About The GOP

Politics Podcast: What The Speakership Vote Tells Us About The GOP
Politics Podcast: What The Speakership Vote Tells Us About The GOP


Last week, internal Republican Party divisions spilled onto the floor of the House of Representatives in a way rarely publicly seen in Washington. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew looks at why it took 15 votes to get Rep. Kevin McCarthy elected House Speaker and what that process says about the two years ahead and the GOP more broadly. They also consider how Rep. George Santos’s scandals will affect his tenure in Congress and whether he would have been elected at all if his fabricated biography had received more scrutiny during the campaign.

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