It’s been nine days since Eric Cantor’s primary defeat stunned the political world and set off not only a race to replace him in Republican leadership but a deeper examination of where the party is and where it’s going.
With the party choosing new(ish) leaders in Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) as Majority Leader and Steve Scalise (La.) as Majority Whip on Thursday afternoon, I asked a handful of Republican House Members as well as GOP strategists paying close attention to the machinations within the party what had changed since Cantor’s loss and what hadn’t. CONT.
Chris Cillizza, Washington Post