McCarthy Tries to Keep Order Within House GOP

“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is trying to quietly extinguish various internal fires as an Islamophobia controversy consumes his GOP conference,” Politico reports.

“The California Republican has sought to handle internal strife privately in a bid to avoid alienating any of his members as he looks to both retake the majority and win the speaker’s gavel next Congress. Rather than putting fellow Republicans on blast, McCarthy has low-key lobbied individuals — and the conference as a whole — to stay on message.”