Republican leader goes into high-stakes vote as potentially first nominee in 100 years without sufficient support to win
McCarthy is in line to replace Nancy Pelosi as speaker, but he heads into the vote with no guarantee of success. The California Republican faces entrenched detractors within his own ranks. Despite attempts to cajole, harangue and win them over – even with an endorsement from former president Donald Trump – McCarthy has fallen short.
“At nearly every turn, we’ve been sidelined or resisted by McCarthy, and any perceived progress has often been vague or contained loopholes that further amplified concerns as to the sincerity of the promises being made,” Perry said in a statement released on Tuesday. “Kevin McCarthy had an opportunity to be Speaker of the House. He rejected it.”
The noontime showdown could very well devolve into a prolonged House floor fight, a spectacle that divides the Republican party, weakens its leadership and consumes the first days of the new Congress. A viable challenger to McCarthy had yet to emerge. Andy Biggs, a former leader of the Freedom Caucus, was running against McCarthy as a conservative option, but was not expected to pull a majority.
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