have the support to put up a real fight. but then webster was endorsed yesterday but roughly 40 members of the house freedom caucus, the conservative group behind the plot to shut down the government over planned parenthood funding, and the same group whose threat to challenge speaker boehner ostensibly led him to step down. and all of a sudden with those 40 votes lined up against mccarthy the math was radically different. in what looked like a last-ditch effort to shore up support former vice president dick cheney stepped in last night to endorse mccarthy. but apparently cheney s word doesn t mean what it used to. this morning kevin mccarthy arrived at a closed-door meeting of the house gop caucus for what was supposed to be a pro forma nomination vote, a kind of preamble to the actual speakership election on october 29th. and instead of delivering a last-minute pitch mccarthy had an announcement to make. kevin mccarthy went up to the microphone and said that he was not going he w
conservative group behind the plot to shut down the government over planned parenthood funding, and the same group whose threat to challenge speaker boehner ostensibly led him to step down. and all of a sudden with those 40 votes lined up against mccarthy the math was radically different. in what looked like a last-ditch effort to shore up support former vice president dick cheney stepped in last night to endorse mccarthy. but apparently cheney s word doesn t mean what it used to. this morning kevin mccarthy arrived at a closed-door meeting of the house gop caucus for what was supposed to be a pro forma nomination vote, a kind of preamble to the actual speakership election on october 29th. and instead of delivering a last-minute pitch mccarthy had an announcement to make. kevin mccarthy went up to the microphone and said that he was not going he was withdrawing his name from consideration for speaker. and that he was not going to be running.
plot to shut down the government over planned parenthood funding, and the same group whose threat to challenge speaker boehner ostensibly led him to step down. and all of a sudden with those 40 votes lined up against mccarthy the math was radically different. in what looked like a last-ditch effort to shore up support former vice president dick cheney stepped in last night to endorse mccarthy. but apparently cheney s word doesn t mean what it used to. this morning kevin mccarthy arrived at a closed-door meeting of the house gop caucus for what was supposed to be a pro forma nomination vote, a kind of preamble to the actual speakership election on october 29th. and instead of delivering a last-minute pitch mccarthy had an announcement to make. kevin mccarthy went up to the microphone and said that he was not going he was withdrawing his name from consideration for speaker. and that he was not going to be running. and with that he sat down. speaker boehner got up and said