In 2015, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called Donald Trump a “chaos candidate” who would be a “chaos president.” While Bush arguably got that part right, what he didn’t foresee was that the Republicans were on their way to becoming the chaos party. Final confirmation of that came with Tuesday’s ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, at the hands of Rep. Matt Gaetz.
California Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the first House speaker to be removed from post. What the history of the motion to vacate portends for the GOP without him, per historian Thomas Balcerski.
California Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the first House speaker to be removed from post. What the history of the motion to vacate portends for the GOP without him, per historian Thomas Balcerski.
If elected, he would join an even more elite club as one of only three White House occupants to be unmarried at the time he took office. Scott's bachelorhood isn't directly on the ballot in the same way his policies on the economy and abortion are. Scott, a Republican, has a standard answer for the curious or the chatty, including anonymous sources who claimed to the news website Axios that the matter was affecting potential donors.