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Justin Papp

Democrats see GOP speaker ‘dysfunction’ as path to House majority

Jasmine Crockett has zero regrets.

Even as Republican infighting drags on into a third week and the House remains speaker-less — holding up aid for Ukraine and Israel, not to mention 12 government spending bills — and even as she opposes, on moral grounds, the House GOP’s top candidate to lead the party, the Texas Democrat isn’t even a little bit rueful about Democrats’ decision to help an insurgent group of conservatives oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker.

In fact, there’s some shiny silver lining visible in the depths of Republican dysfunction, Crockett and other Democrats said.

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