They kept GOP backchannels open — but now that the embattled speaker has given them no incentive to help save his job, they have no plans to.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks with reporters after a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 3, 2023. | Francis Chung/POLITICO. Yet he’s given them no incentive to salvage his besieged speakership, according to a half dozen centrists who spoke to POLITICO on Tuesday.
Any hope among Democratic moderates to extract concessions from McCarthy has run into a major problem, though: He can’t afford any capitulating to Democrats. While centrists had speculated about what they could get from the speaker, McCarthy and his allies have indicated that their final offer is, essentially, nothing.Nothing except — maybe — a temporary reprieve from the churn of crisis that’s defined the House’s McCarthy era so far.
There’s an even simpler reason that the party’s most vulnerable Democrats don’t feel compelled to help: McCarthy, as the party’s biggest fundraiser, is also their biggest political foe.
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