McCarthy wins GOP vote for Speakership handily over right-wing challenge

Kevin McCarthy Wins GOP Nomination for House Speaker; Sen. Warnock Sues GA over Early Voting Rules

In Washington, D.C., House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy won the Republican nomination for speaker with 188 votes. He’ll need to secure a majority — at least 218 votes — in January to become speaker. Republicans lack just one seat to take control of the House, with GOP candidates leading in four of the nine races yet to be called. In other midterm news, Senator Raphael Warnock has sued his home state of Georgia for forbidding early voting on Sa…

McCarthy wins Republican nomination for House speaker, but grind ahead

Republicans are on the cusp of House control and McCarthy will face a formal vote when the new Congress convenes in January.

McCarthy wins Republican nomination for House speaker, but grind ahead

Republicans are on the cusp of House control and McCarthy will face a formal vote when the new Congress convenes in January.

McCarthy wins Republican nomination for House speaker, but grind ahead

Republicans are on the cusp of House control and McCarthy will face a formal vote when the new Congress convenes in January.

Kevin McCarthy is Republican nominee for House speaker

With Republicans all set to regain control of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy has been nominated by the party to be speaker in the new Congress. He secured 188 votes  in a closed-door vote held on Tuesday.  "House Republicans have elected Kevin McCarthy as our nominee for speaker for the 118th Congress," House Republicans said via Twitter. "The era of one-party Democrat rule is over," the 57-year-old congressman from California, a s…

McCarthy wins nomination for House speaker

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leader Kevin McCarthy cleared the first major step Tuesday toward becoming House speaker, winning the nomination on a vote by his GOP colleagues, but he now