Republican frontrunner Kevin McCarthy suffered a shock defeat in the race to become the new speaker of the US House of Representatives late Friday amid astonishing scenes of bitter infighting after failing to stamp out a rebellion among his party's ranks.
Republican frontrunner Kevin McCarthy suffered a shock defeat in the race to become the new speaker of the US House of Representatives late Friday amid astonishing scenes of bitter infighting after failing to stamp out a rebellion among his party's ranks.
Amid the chaos, a vote to adjourn failed and the House was expected to move to a 15th voting round -- which McCarthy could win. McCarthy claimed that he had the support to finally secure the gavel -- only to be humiliated in a floor vote given wall to wall coverage on US news channels. Democrats and some of McCarthy's own supporters, in private, are concerned that he has been offering his far-right critics radical policy commitments that will make the House ungovernable.
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