McCarthy endured scorn and ridicule when he rushed to Mar-a-Lago days after the US Capitol insurrection two years ago to embrace Trump – living up to that “My Kevin” nickname coined by the ...

McCarthy’s win will raise pressure on Biden to change his position There is nothing wrong with Republican lawmakers using mandates won in a democratic election to try to fulfill their pledges to ...

Rep. Kevin McCarthy failed to secure the necessary votes to become House speaker in another round of voting — the third — after 20 House Republicans voted against him.

Day after day, McCarthy and his allies have been negotiating with the defectors to end the humiliating deadlock. The House adjourned on Thursday soon after McCarthy fell short in the chamber’s ...

Mr. McCarthy “is symbolically the definition of the cartel speaker,” he added. “He’s making it easy for them, and he’s making it hard on himself.” Emily Cochrane contributed reporting.

McCarthy warned Democratic minority leader Jeffries that “Two years ago I got 100% of the vote from my conference.” “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” said McCarthy ...

McCarthy (R-Calif.) was eventually elected speaker on the 15th ballot in January after five days of voting, only to be ousted 10 months later in a historic first for the House of Representatives.

Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), hours after being ousted as speaker of the House, told reporters that he didn’t regret standing up for “governing over grievance” but that he would not run for ...

McCarthy’s vote total had fallen as low as 200 on Thursday. But Republicans began to move in his direction Friday afternoon, and each flip was met with raucous applause from the GOP side of the ...

“Kevin McCarthy is not a conservative,” Virginia Rep. Bob Good, one of the original and most fervent of the never-McCarthy Republicans, told Politico in the run-up to the speakership vote.

As hard-line House Republicans move to oust Kevin McCarthy from his speakership, Democrats say they won't help him. "Let them wallow in their pigsty of incompetence," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

McCarthy Said Trump Acknowledged ‘Some Responsibility’ for Jan. 6 New audio captures what Representative Kevin McCarthy said to Republicans shortly after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.