Author: Cynthia Bond Hopson, Ph.D.

I’ve won every election I entered—two 400 years ago, beforecomputers—and I understood going in that there was a chance I’d lose. Iplanned to win but had no plan for losing. Obviously neither does HouseSpeaker wannabe Kevin McCarthy. For the first time in modern history a new speaker wasn’t elected in atimely fashion so the world of politics could move along at its usual snail’space. Today I have three simple questions surrounding this “no speaker hasbeen elected” stalemate: after three or four days of rejection, how muchplainer can it be that Mr. McCarthy may not be the man with/ for the…

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