After four days of gruelling ballots, Kevin McCarthy flipped more than a dozen conservative holdouts to become supporters Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was elected as U.S. House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot early on January 7 overcoming holdouts from his own ranks and floor tensions that boiled over after a chaotic week that tested the new GOP majority’s ability to govern. My father always told me, it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” Mr. McCarthy told cheering fellow Republicans. Eager to confront President Joe Biden and…
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