he was so close in 2015, after former Speaker John Boehner quit. McCarthy had been the favorite to replace him, until he did an interview with Hannity where he boasted that the Republicans’ investigation into the 2012 Benghazi attack had tarnished the then secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, and made her a weaker presidential candidate in 2016. Republicans had previously claimed—dubiously—that all they cared about was getting to the bottom of an attack on an American diplomatic compound in Libya that killed four Americans. McCarthy admitted otherwise to Hannity, which was factual but not
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