Jesse Watters has been calling Kevin McCarthy “speaker” for months now. “It appears we may have gotten a little ahead of ourselves,” Watters finally admitted Wednesday.
to select a Speaker of the House, Fox News host Jesse Watters came to the realization that he may have acted prematurely in prior interviews by implying that Rep. Kevin McCarthy would surely land that job.needs to issue an apology,” Watters explained. “It appears we may have gotten a little ahead of ourselves.”
“Yeah, I may have jumped the gun a little bit,” Watters admitted, adding that he’s “sorry” for putting a jinx on the congressman, who had been the odds-on favorite for the post—given Republicans could win back control of the House in the first place, which they only narrowly did. As of Wednesday night, six ballots have come and gone with McCarthy unable to wrangle enough votes to secure the gavel. In the sixth and most recent vote, a group of 20 Republicans opted for Rep. Byron Donalds instead of McCarthy, while Rep. Victoria Spartz voted “present.”
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