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The John Batchelor Show

#GOP: No end in sight to the turmoil in the House. Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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#GOP: No end in sight to the turmoil in the House. Thaddeus McCotter, American Greatness.

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This is the Friends Vista Debating Society.

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I'm John Batcher with Thaddeus MacArthur, recovering politician he says.

0:36.0

But he writes in American greatness.

0:38.0

He's also a veteran of the House of Representatives and the veteran of the leadership.

0:43.0

That is, right now we do not have a speaker of the House have not since Mr. McCarthy was ejected or rejected by the vote of the House.

0:52.0

It would appear that Scalice failed for the same reason.

0:56.0

Not enough votes to win the House of Representatives majority.

1:03.0

And now we have Jim Jordan of Ohio, Butler County, I believe.

1:06.0

No, just Ohio.

1:08.0

Come forward as a candidate to be speaker of the House.

1:13.0

My reading of this from the way outside is that we have a handful of Republican members who are dictating

1:21.0

or rejecting or just in some fashion embracing this chaos.

1:27.0

Why? How do you read them?

1:30.0

Well, John, when I was in the caucus, we saw this way back up.

1:35.0

We saw this when the attempt to stop speaker McCarthy last January occurred.

1:42.0

The Republicans were new back in the majority and you had a handful of people who sided with Democrats

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