Kevin McCarthy had 10 months to convince Democrats that he was an honorable and trustworthy leader. He failed — and ended up paying a high price.
, and House Democrats weren’t fond of Paul Ryan or John Boehner. There’s no great mystery here: House speakers from the majority party tend not to have a lot of support from members of the minority party.
If the California Republican lost a mere handful of his own members — which has long been inevitable — it would fall to Democrats to either keep the gavel in McCarthy’s hands or help take it away. This was evident on Sunday, when McCarthy appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” but he nevertheless suggested that the government shutdown that his party nearly created should be blamed on the Democratic minority.
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