Kevin McCarthy Defeats a Challenge to His Leadership—But the Speakership Drama Is Far From Over

Shortly before last week’s elections, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, in giddy anticipation of a red wave, predicted the midterms would lead to a “Democratic circular firing squad.” But instead, as the purported red wave recedes into a ripple, the inverse of that prognosis has materialized: It is Republicans playing the blame game, not Democrats. “We’re going to fight it out,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Monday, with the GOP negotiating whom it wants as the next Speaker of the House. “I’m not afraid of the civil war in the GOP. I lean into it.” It remains an open… Read Full Article