Kevin McCarthy mulls quitting Congress after Speaker defeat: report

Recently-defeated House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is considering stepping down from the House before his term is over, Politico reported Friday.

McCarthy signaled that he was thinking of stepping down during a closed-door meeting with his conference hours after Democrats and Republicans united to vote him out.

“I’m going to spend time with my family,” he said.

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“I might have been given a bad break, but I’m still the luckiest man alive,” he added.

“I’ll do anything I can to help almost all of you. Don’t worry, I’ve raised a helluva lot of money in the last hour,” he said.

Read the full report over at Politico.