What The Speakership Vote Tells Us About The GOP

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🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The crew looks at why it took 15 votes to get Rep. Kevin McCarthy elected House Speaker and what that process says about the two years ahead and the GOP more broadly. They also consider how Rep. George Santos’s scandals will affect his tenure in Congress and whether he would have been elected at all if his fabricated biography had received more scrutiny during the campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Galen, the rule held true, right?
0:03.8	You went on vacation and big news happened.
0:06.1	It did. I was gonna resist even making jokes about it this time.
0:09.4	No, this time it's merited.
0:11.5	Sometimes you exaggerate the effect of your vacations on the national news,
0:14.7	but this time clearly you caused this.
0:17.4	Wait, Paul, last year I took a vacation twice,
0:21.4	and the two times I took a vacation, the queen died in Russian.
0:23.8	Yeah, that's pretty big.
0:25.3	How am I exaggerating?
0:26.5	I feel like one time you took a vacation and like,
0:28.4	it was like, you know, I don't know, the house released some report on some,
0:35.0	you know, sealist level scandal.
0:37.7	Wait, no, no, no, no, no.
0:38.7	Also remember, the last time I took a vacation before COVID,
0:43.7	I took a vacation and that week the house started its impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump.
0:49.5	Hello, and welcome to the 530 Politics Podcast.
1:01.0	I'm Galen Drew.
1:02.6	Drew, I don't even know my own name.
1:04.3	Okay, sorry.
1:09.3	As it's really been, I've been away, I'm jet lagged.
1:11.9	I've truly been on vacation for two weeks.
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