Kevin McCarthy

We saw the most drawn-out House Speaker election since 1860.

Who'll forget that battle? And after four days and 15 ballots, Kevin McCarthy finally won a slim majority.

He almost managed to hold onto the job for a full year.

No sooner had that drama ended than the US hit its debt ceiling, a limit on the amount of debt that can be incurred by the US Treasury.

They could decide, you know, think about how they handled the January 6th special committee.

And remember, the January 6th special committee, ended up including no Republicans because Nancy Pelosi refused to seat the Republicans that that Kevin McCarthy wanted to put on the committee.

And so it ended up well, OK, actually, technically, it had Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.

So so the only, quote, Republicans were left wing Republicans that Pelosi wanted who hated the president were opposed to the president.

They could decide, you know, think about how they handled the January 6th special committee.

ended up including no Republicans because Nancy Pelosi refused to seat the Republicans that that Kevin McCarthy wanted to put on the committee.

And so it ended up well, OK, actually, technically, it had Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.

So so the only, quote, Republicans were left wing Republicans that Pelosi wanted who hated the president were opposed to the president.

Early January, earlier than the inauguration.

Yeah, because I remember Kevin McCarthy, his whole debacle when he couldn't hardly get in, that started, I think, on January 3rd.

So it's early January and all that.

Chris Plant pointed out, and it's not like it made me feel any better because we still got stomped, but that the same thing happened under Obama.

And I asked Jeffries when I sat down with him a few weeks ago about what kind of leader he would be as Speaker of the House.

Will he be like Nancy Pelosi, who very much got her members in line, cracked the whip? Will he also be like some other leaders like Kevin McCarthy or Mike Johnson, often tried to win over his critics within their own conference by offering incentives?

Like Nancy Pelosi? Are you cracking the whip?

Is it like Mike Johnson or Kevin McCarthy where you're giving incentives for people to fall in line?

Well, I don't want to get out ahead of what's going to happen in the next Congress, ultimately.

But how

Reality can be whatever you want it to be, chief.

That when you've seen Republican leaders, you know, Kevin McCarthy at times be at odds with the majority of their caucus on a huge issue, they don't last very long.

And so the Medicare for all.

I don't think I don't

See you Thursday.

Why are you shilling so hard against populism when even modern economics agrees on things like capital gains tax and other methods of decreasing wealth inequality? Because that has nothing to do with populism.

Comment that Kakeem Jeffries made on national television before the election where he said, you know, Kevin McCarthy at times be at odds with the majority of their caucus on a huge issue.

They don't last very long.

Today, where Republicans go from here after the historic repudiation of Donald Trump.

Will the party chart a new course? Or will there be another Kevin McCarthy moment where they all go crawling back to their MAGA idol?

Then, what the elevation of Stephen Miller to chief of staff means for the final two years of the Trump presidency.

The same Stephen Miller who championed the immigration policies that were roundly rejected by voters on Election Day.

Kimberly, Scott, thank you both for coming back to the weekend.

Scott, the questions I asked at the very end, I'll ask you.

And this is my hobby horse because I'm wondering, will the repudiation of Trump in the midterms actually change the behavior of the elected Republicans who are coming back to what will be in the 120th Congress? Do you think? They'll change their behavior or will they transmogrify themselves into Kevin McCarthy after January 6th? I

would not wait for any transmortification.

And I have the perfect man to do that for you.

Kevin McCarthy needs to run the RNC.

Wow.

Let's go.