The stakes couldn’t be higher amid tensions in Ukraine and Israel. But with the GOP still riven by petty feuds, can the party actually coalesce around a new leader?
This drama is not only playing out against the backdrop of turmoil at home, where the clock is once again ticking to prevent a government shutdown; it is set against a pair of international crises—in Ukraine, which has warned of defense setbacks against Russia if American aid dries up, and now in Israel, which has declared war on Hamas after the militant group launched a devastating surprise attack over the weekend.
That’s created just enough of an opening for McCarthy, who has appeared this week to soft-launch a “miss me yet?” tour. “You have 96 percent of the conference in one place, and you’re allowing four percent, with the Democrats playing politics, that now are putting the doubt inside this body,” McCarthy said in a press conference Monday on the Israel-Hamas conflict. “That is wrong.
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