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DC insider warns of very real GOP plot to stop Dem takeover after November victory

The Speakership as a Choke PointJames Carville’s warning is simple: Republicans are not just running campaigns, they are testing the machinery of government for ways to delay, obstruct, and hang onto power. The immediate example in the source is Speaker Mike Johnson’s handling of Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in after her special-election win, amid concern that the delay was meant to interfere with a discharge petition on the Epstein files.Power Lives in ProcedureThe relevant fact is not confusion. It is control. Mike Johnson holds institutional power as Speaker of the House, and that power…

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