Rep. Kevin McCarthy: Decision to Run Again Will Be a ‘Gut Call’

Published on November 29, 2023

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has little more than a week left to decide whether he will run for reelection next year. That decision, the congressman said, will ultimately come down to a “gut call.” The former House speaker has until Dec. 8 to file the necessary paperwork to declare his candidacy, but after a tumultuous year that saw him become the third-shortest-serving speaker in American history, the Republican is still weighing his options. “If I’m walking away from something that I spent two decades at, I don’t want to look back and say I made an emotional decision,” he said at The New York Times DealBook Summit in New York on Nov. 29....

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