AdvertisementAccording to CNN, more than 50 current and former Republican House members appeared on its airwaves during the last week of the McCarthy drama. Second, more House Republicans must answer to voters whose primary allegiance isn’t to Trump or even to the GOP. Eighteen Republicans won House seats in districts that voted for Biden in 2020 -- twice the number in the last Congress. The only way for mainstream Republicans to maintain even a tenuous grip over the House is to isolate the extremists. AdvertisementBut overall, Republicans did an effective job of explaining their position and containing the insanity of the speaker’s race until McCarthy finally managed to limp across the finish line.

Source: CNN January 13, 2023 11:52 UTC