It was the kind of debacle not seen on the House floor in a century, and a stunning lesson on the state of the modern Republican Party.
has been able to clinch the job after just one voting round and McCarthy had offered to do almost anything to follow in that tradition.He agreed to remove entry magnetometers around Capitol Hill. He agreed to create a new select committee on the alleged “weaponisation” of the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Even more embarrassingly, Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries, who was nominated by his party to be the alternative Speaker got more votes than the Republican minority leader. Republican Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, in a surprise move, nominated Jim Jordan of Ohio to be House Speaker.The mutiny has not yet ended McCarthy’s bid for Speaker, which he has vowed to continue, forcing multiple votes even well into the night until he wins the top job.
He had also had known for days that he faced an uphill battle against an anti-McCarthy faction led by Arizona congressman Andy Biggs, who far-right Republican Paul Gosar offered up as alternative. Also against him was Scott Perry, the leader of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, who issued a statement on Tuesday morning claiming that he and a group of other Republicans had “worked in good faith for months to change the status quo” but that McCarthy has “sidelined or resisted” them.“We may have a battle on the floor, but the battle is for the conference and the country,” Mr. McCarthy said before the voting began, after a feisty private meeting with Republicans. “I am not going away.
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