There is now just one contender for Cantor's leadership post

There is now just one contender for Cantor&#039;s leadership post — (Image credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) dropped out of the running to replace Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) as House majority leader, leaving Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as the lone contender. Cantor announced that he would step down at the end of July after suffering a shocking primary defeat by Tea Party-backed challenger Dave Brat. Cantor said McCarthy, currently the No. 3 House Republican, would "make an outstanding majority leader." Read more at The Huffington Post.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.