Right before the vote for the next Speaker of the House took place in October 2015, Kevin McCarthy withdrew his candidacy. His withdrawal came as rumors swirled of an affair between McCarthy, who is married, and another married House member. Per the New York Post, rumors put McCarthy and Renee Ellmers together. The outlet further reported that a site called GotNews claimed Ellmers and McCarthy had been together for a long time — and even former Speaker of the House John Boehner told them to end it.
At the time, many outlets wouldn’t touch the rumor, to which conservative columnist Matt Lewis had this to say to HuffPost: “I think that the new media errs sometimes in being overzealous and imprudent and the old media errs in being stodgy and not fulfilling its responsibly to viewers and readers. It was stunning what happened today and people are looking for answers to something that seems unexplainable.” He added, “[T]he truth is that insiders and media elites all over DC are talking about these rumors — and some fairly prominent people are blogging about it. So I do think there’s a responsibility to be prudent in the way we present the story, but that needs to be balanced with the responsibility we have to our readers.”
Both Ellmers and McCarthy denied the allegation.
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