Chaffetz hopes for groundswell to make him speaker

Washington • Rep. Jason Chaffetz says he's talked to half the 247 House Republicans in his bid for speaker ­— and persuaded some to swing his way — but he's not asking any of them to publicly endorse his bid.The Utah Republican hopes, he says, that enough members will see that Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., doesn't have support to win the job being vacated by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and that they will look for an alternative."At some point, there'll be