Kevin McCarthy (Deep State - California) Caught on Hot Mic Ripping Liz Cheney:

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Since House Speaker Paul Ryan announced his retirement a month ago, the position has been seen as Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s to lose. In fact, according to The Weekly Standard, top Republicans are so eager to oust the lame-duck speaker that there’s talk of pushing Ryan out this summer, months before the end of his term, to make way for McCarthy.

But wait — wasn’t McCarthy also the front-runner to take the speaker’s gavel from John Boehner in 2015? And didn’t he drop out at the last minute, leaving Republicans to beg Ryan to save them?

In The Weekly Standard’s telling, “McCarthy’s first run for speaker failed for a number of reasons.” First, he made comments suggesting that Republicans were only investigating Benghazi to stick it to then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Also, he “struggled to win the support of conservative members, some of whom were reluctant to support him amid concerns that he would not represent enough of a change from the tactics of former speaker John Boehner.”

There’s no mention of the other major factor that may have contributed to the abrupt end of his campaign to be speaker: the rumor the he had an affair with then-congresswoman Renee Ellmers.

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