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Elissa Slotkin: “It took... 15 rounds... for Kevin McCarthy [to become…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Battle for the Senate: A Conversation with Michigan Candidate & Current Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin

Published | Video Starts at 04:06

Yeah, I mean, honestly, this, to me, felt like something we knew was gonna happen back when we were trying to get a speaker of the House in January, right, when we all sat there on the floor of the house and It took... 15 rounds... for Kevin McCarthy [to become Speaker]. 15. Sorry, 15. To get the. Kevin McCarthy a speaker, he handed the shovel to the Freedom Caucus and dug his own grave. And that's what we saw come to roost this past week. (04:06–07:14)

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Asserts that it took 15 rounds of voting for Kevin McCarthy to become Speaker of the House.

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