Kevin McCarthy's Benghazi gaffe roils House speaker race -- [Oct 2015]
"Washington (CNN) Kevin McCarthy's run to be the next House speaker is showing signs of trouble.
Emboldened conservatives are seizing on McCarthy's recent stumbles, insisting that he continues to lack the 218 votes necessary to secure the speakership on the House floor, and word spread Friday that Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah might join the race.
McCarthy infuriated Republicans by suggesting the probe into the deadly 2012 Benghazi attack was political in nature, giving fodder to many conservatives already eager to insert new blood into the House leadership....
With little margin for error, McCarthy went on "Fox News" Thursday evening to walk back his Benghazi comments, saying he "did not intend to imply in any way that the work is political."
Still, McCarthy's comments from earlier this week -- where he boasted that Clinton's "numbers are dropping" because of the work of the Benghazi committee -- became fodder for Democrats, who said it showed the panel was simply designed as a political witch hunt to target the Democratic frontrunner's record as secretary of state. McCarthy's comments came up in the closed-door meeting Thursday with the House Freedom Caucus, attendees said."....
Do you read the articles you post? McCarthy is not supporting Trump. He’s just correctly deducing that Cruz has no chance to win the nomination.