‘Who is he?’ The X-factor relationship that could soon rule the House

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy responds to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 3. | J. Scott Applewhite, File/AP Photo

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Kevin McCarthy and Hakeem Jeffries have almost nothing in common — except a shared ambition to run the House. Not that they will admit they think about each other at all.

“Kevin who?” Jeffries quips of the minority leader. “Who is he?” McCarthy asks, rhetorically, of the No. 5 House Democrat.

While the election that will decide their fates is nearly a year away, the cold war between the ambitious pols is in full swing. Jeffries, considered a future leader of

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