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CNN Hosts Groan Over McCarthy Possibly Becoming Speaker on Jan. 6

‘FINISH THEIR BUSINESS’

“I don’t think we should let that go,” one anchor said of the possibility that McCarthy could win the speaker’s gavel on the anniversary of the Capitol insurrection.

With it becoming increasingly likely that Kevin McCarthy will finally become Speaker of the House after a four-day stalemate, several CNN hosts on Friday afternoon appeared horrified at the notion that his election could take place on the anniversary of the Capitol insurrection.

After two votes on Friday afternoon saw McCarthy...

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