What The Speakership Vote Tells Us About The GOP
What The Speakership Vote Tells Us About The GOP  
Podcast: FiveThirtyEight Politics
Published On: Mon Jan 09 2023
Description: The crew looks at why it took 15 votes to get Rep. Kevin McCarthy elected House Speaker and what that process says about the two years ahead and the GOP more broadly. They also consider how Rep. George Santos’s scandals will affect his tenure in Congress and whether he would have been elected at all if his fabricated biography had received more scrutiny during the campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices