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    House speaker ordeal: How will it play in swing districts?

    by Story Hinckley Oct 26, 2023 5 minutes

    When it comes to politics, childhood friends Angie Russell and Robin Callahan don’t agree on much.

    Ms. Callahan, a retired teacher who lives in Virginia Beach, voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 because she couldn’t bring herself to vote for former President Donald Trump. Ms. Russell, also retired and living in Lynchburg, says she was “Trump all the way.” Both plan to vote the same way next year, when the two men are expected to face off in a rematch.

    But when it comes to the prolonged speakership fight that paralyzed Capitol Hill for almost all of October, the two friends walking along Virginia Beach’s boardwalk are equally dismayed. 

    “It makes us wonder: How can you solve any of the problems going on in our country or the world?” says Ms. Callahan.

    “We look weak, and our enemies see that,” says Ms. Russell. 

    Wednesday’s election of Louisiana Rep.

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