“For all his flaws, Kevin McCarthy fully earned his reputation for being, as one GOP operative put it, ‘a money fucking factory for Republicans.'” the Daily Beast reports.
“In the 2022 cycle alone, McCarthy raised over $27 million for his Majority Committee PAC, spending almost all of it on his colleagues—even 14 of the 20 GOP members who fought for days in January to block him from winning the speaker’s gavel.
”“With McCarthy now relegated to the House Republican rank and file after his historic ouster from the speakership this week, the campaign cash void he leaves behind might be as concerning to Republicans as the literal power vacuum in the House.”
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