Playbook: “Not even six months ago, conservative hard-liners fought tooth and nail to prevent just this scenario, forcing McCarthy to go 15 ballots and make deep governing concessions to win the speaker’s gavel.”
“But two dynamics help explain why McCarthy has been resilient — at least so far: (1) The backroom horse-trading, it turns out, helped McCarthy forge relationships with the right in a way his predecessors never did. And (2) the GOP base simply isn’t up in arms opposing him.”
Also interesting: A new Economist/YouGov poll finds McCarthy’s approval rating has jumped by 10 points among Republicans since he took the gavel, hovering at 66%.
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