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

Final week, inner Republican Occasion divisions spilled onto the ground of the Home of Representatives in a approach hardly ever publicly seen in Washington. On this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew appears to be like at why it took 15 votes to get Rep. Kevin McCarthy elected Home Speaker and what that course of says concerning the two years forward and the GOP extra broadly. Additionally they contemplate how Rep. George Santos’s scandals will have an effect on his tenure in Congress and whether or not he would have been elected in any respect if his fabricated biography had acquired extra scrutiny through the marketing campaign.

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