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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Hugh Hewitt: A New Majority, a New Speaker and a New Congress
Description: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s triumph in gaining the gavel after 15 ballots was perhaps sweeter than anyone not named McCarthy knows—because it was so very hard to gain and because it was so long in coming. McCarthy’s road to victory began long before his first bid for the speaker’s gavel came up short in 2015. It began before McCarthy joined the House in 2007, and even before he was elected to the California State Assembly in 2002. Perhaps it began when McCarthy was still in college and he started as a staffer for Bill Thomas—the Califor...