{"id":76457,"date":"2015-10-08T13:23:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T17:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=76457"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:44:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T19:44:26","slug":"breaking-kevin-mccarthy-quits-speaker-house-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/breaking-kevin-mccarthy-quits-speaker-house-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy quits Speaker of the House race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, previously assumed to be the frontrunner to become the next Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2015\/10\/08\/breaking-kevin-mccarthy-takes-himself-out-of-speaker-race\/\">has dropped out<\/a> of the race.<\/p>\n<p>According to National Journal reporter Daniel Newhauser, &#8220;McCarthy got up in front of the room&#8221; at the morning GOP conference meeting, &#8220;said he&#8217;s not right person to lead the conference &amp; quit. Boehner then said the election is postponed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Subsequently, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said McCarthy made his sudden decision after determining he would be unable to obtain the 218 votes necessary to win.<\/p>\n<p>Other candidates for Speaker include <a href=\"\/news\/go-planned-parenthood-funding-vote\/\">Rep. Daniel Webster<\/a> and\u00a0 <a href=\"\/news\/breaking-pro-life-congressman-jason-chaffetz-run-speaker\/\">Rep. Jason Chaffetz<\/a>, who recently chaired the first hearing into Planned Parenthood&#8217;s fetal organ harvesting scandal. Both voted against the recent budget resolution that included funding for Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, previously assumed to be the frontrunner to become the next Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, has dropped out of the race. According to National Journal reporter Daniel Newhauser, &#8220;McCarthy got up in front of the room&#8221; at the morning GOP conference meeting, &#8220;said he&#8217;s not right person to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":76460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3473],"tags":[4241,403,5411,131,3151,4769,4168,5143,615,5317],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy quits Speaker of the House race<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kevin McCarthy, who was essentially groomed to replace outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner, has removed his name from consideration for the role.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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