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House adjourns until 8pm as GOP deadlocked over speaker vote

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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Kevin McCarthy's Vote Loss Was a Strategic Miscalculation

McCarthy should have done a better job strategically to get the votes in order. The people who oppose him had no conception of what victory would look like. Matt Gates wanted a subcommittee gavel, which if you're one of the other 200 plus Republicans, that's an untenable demand. Jonah Goldberg: It was a strategic miscalculation at every turn.

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