NBC
Seth Meyers used his first “A Closer Look” segment of 2023 to examine what he described as the “absolute chaos” that occurred on the floor of the House on Tuesday when Republicans tried—and failed—to elect Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as speaker.
“It’s a monumental failure that has not happened in a hundred years,” the Late Night host explained, pointing to the irony of the “fanatically pro-Trump” McCarthy, who has “spent years ingratiating himself” to the MAGA movement only to face a “backlash from far-right members of his own party who think he’s not pro-Trump enough.”
As for Republican House members like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who have found themselves on opposite sides of this vicious fight, Meyers compared them to “sorority members who just got kicked out for drinking too much.”