Rep. Kevin McCarthy scratched out a victory for speaker of the US House after a grueling 15 rounds of voting. Just over half of Utahns watched the drama play out on C-SPAN and cable news over 4 days last month.
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And residents of the Beehive State are split over how the chaos affected their view of the Republican Party, though it remained unchanged for many, according to a new Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics poll. , who along with the state's three other Republican congressmen backed McCarthy from the outset, wondered if the "dysfunction" would go on for another two years.
Among those in the survey who self-identified as Republicans, 19% say they have a higher opinion of the GOP, while 28% have a lower opinion. Like poll respondents overall, the view of the party didn't change for 42% of Republicans. That might be due in part to the concessions McCarthy made to a handful of Republican holdouts who said they wanted to fix a "broken" legislative process in the closely divided House. Some of the agreements reduce his power as speaker.One change empowers a single lawmaker to start the process to remove the speaker.
"Turns out it revealed nothing," he said. "There's a chance for the Republicans, particularly in the House, to find a way to come together and I think that they will continue to look for opportunities up through the next election."
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