GOP election losses make it easier for Rep. Kevin McCarthy to finally nab leadership post
WASHINGTON - Republicans' losing control of the House means Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has an easier path to becoming his party's leader in the lower chamber, even if it's not the speakership he has long coveted.
"The difference between being speaker and minority leader is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug," Claremont McKenna College politics professor John J. Pitney said, paraphrasing Mark Twain. "The speaker can do things. The minority
