McCarthy’s 2015 Speakership Chances Derailed by Renee Ellmers Affair. Is It Happening Again? – IOTW Report

McCarthy’s 2015 Speakership Chances Derailed by Renee Ellmers Affair. Is It Happening Again?

National File:

Kevin McCarthy was nearly house speaker in 2015. Instead, the Freedom Caucus ended up negotiating a deal with Paul Ryan. The rest is history.

Lost in that year of political upheaval was the drama surrounding Kevin McCarthy’s exit.

McCarthy supposedly withdrew his consideration because of some inartful comments made about Hillary’s Benghazi scandal. From Politico:

They’re seizing on comments from Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in which he boasted on national television that the panel’s work has hurt Hillary Clinton in the polls — a statement her supporters say vindicates their view that the panel is a politically motivated effort to damage her campaign.

Already, Republicans are distancing themselves from McCarthy’s remarks, even as he’s leading the race to be the next speaker of the House, and defending the panel they formed to investigate the 2012 attack on the Libya consulate. Democrats, on the other hand, have demanded that the panel be dissolved, with some Clinton allies even calling for McCarthy to abandon his bid to become speaker.

Naturally, this was not the real reason for McCarthy’s exit from the speakership.
The real reason McCarthy withdrew his name from consideration for House Speaker was his affair with Renee Ellmers. MORE

10 Comments on McCarthy’s 2015 Speakership Chances Derailed by Renee Ellmers Affair. Is It Happening Again?

  1. If they didn’t have dirt on them, you wouldn’t know ANY of these human turds. And you thought professional sports was full of hoodlums.

    God will flush them all.

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