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Kevin McCarthy lost his 12th speaker ballot Friday. The converts are still reviewing rules changes McCarthy has promised in exchange for the gavel. "Watch here and you'll see some people who have been voting against me voting for me," McCarthy told reporters at the US Capitol. Republican Reps.-elect Ken Buck of Colorado and Wesley Hunt of Texas, both McCarthy supporters, were both absent Friday morning because of personal reasons. "You only earn the position if you get the votes," Gaetz said on the House floor, a taunt that caused McCarthy supporter Rep-elect Mike Bost of Illinois to shout his disapproval.
WASHINGTON— Kevin McCarthy made new concessions to try to win over detractors in the hard-fought race for House speaker, with some lawmakers expressing hope that they could see a resolution soon, but with both sides acknowledging that it could take days. The discussions between the California Republican’s allies and his opponents heated up after Mr. McCarthy didn’t reach the majority in three series of votes for the speaker post Tuesday, nor another three Wednesday, deepening doubts about his prospects and fueling talk of alternatives.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy has lost six rounds of voting for House Speaker as of Wednesday night. Here are five ways the battle for House Speaker could potentially end. The GOP's slim majority in the House means McCarthy needs the support of nearly all Republicans to become speaker. Here are five potential ways the battle for House Speaker could end, with or without McCarthy assuming the position. House changes the rules to push McCarthy throughThe House could also in theory change the rules of voting for speaker.
A former DC police officer who suffered major injuries on January 6 took a jab at Rep. Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy has unsuccessfully sought the majority vote for House Speaker six times in two days. The ex-officer, Michael Fanone, a McCarthy critic, was at the Capitol Wednesday "to rub it in." The GOP in the House has a slim majority and far-right GOP holdouts have voted for other candidates. One of the GOP holdouts Rep. Matt Gaetz has accused McCarthy of "squatting" in the House Speaker's office without having been voted in, Insider reported.
Rep. Matt Gaetz voted for former President Donald Trump for House speaker on Thursday. Rep. Kevin McCarthy lost his bid for House speaker for the seventh time. Gaetz is among 20 House Republicans who have repeatedly voted against McCarthy. Yet there appears to have been limited, if any, progress in negotiations as the anti-McCarthy group remained opposed to him in the seventh vote on Thursday. Gaetz's vote for Trump also comes as the former president on Wednesday morning urged the holdouts to support McCarthy.
Rep. Lauren Boebert dismissed Trump's plea to back Kevin McCarthy for House speaker. Boebert said Trump should tell McCarthy to withdraw his bid. McCarthy has lost five consecutive ballots for House speaker as of Wednesday afternoon. "The president needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that, 'Sir, you do not have the votes, and it's time to withdraw.'" Hours before, Trump had urged Republican members to unite behind McCarthy after he failed to secure a majority of 218 votes to become House speaker, losing three consecutive ballots on Tuesday.
The latest vote saw a core group of GOP holdouts nominate and vote for Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, a sophomore Republican lawmaker who on Tuesday had publicly shifted his support away from McCarthy. While the vote is still ongoing, enough Republicans have abandoned McCarthy to leave him shy of the 218 he needs to win the coveted seat. WASHINGTON — In the fourth vote in two days, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., again failed to secure enough support to win the U.S. House speakership. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is seen at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on December 21, 2022. Kevin McCarthy will do a good job, and maybe even a GREAT JOB – JUST WATCH!"
Rep. Kevin McCarthy failed to gain the votes to become House majority speaker on Tuesday. McCarthy failed to gain the necessary 218 votes three times at the outset of the 118th Congress. Later, key ally Donald Trump declined to say whether he stood by his endorsement of McCarthy. McCarthy did not amass enough votes from his Republican colleagues at the outset of the 118th Congress, with 19 GOP members voting against his effort to become speaker of the GOP-led House. In December, Trump encouraged GOP holdouts to rally around McCarthy, accusing them of playing a "very dangerous game."
Trump has called on House GOP holdouts to drop their opposition to McCarthy's speakership. During a Brietbart interview, the former president said McCarthy "deserves the shot" to lead. "Look, I think this Kevin has worked very hard," Trump said during the interview. Hopefully, he's going to be very strong and going to be very good and he's going to do what everybody wants." But I have to tell them, and I have told them, you're playing a very dangerous game," he added.
WASHINGTON—House Republicans across the ideological spectrum implored some conservative members to drop their efforts to tank GOP leader Kevin McCarthy’s bid for speaker, warning that Democrats could end up selecting the next speaker if the party didn’t unify behind him. In a closed-door meeting on Tuesday morning, lawmakers lined up to voice support for the California Republican. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, an outspoken populist ally of former President Donald Trump, enthusiastically backed Mr. McCarthy’s bid, as did Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who occasionally crosses party lines and has regularly sparred with Mrs. Greene.
California Rep. Kevin McCarthy is the Republican nominee for the next Speaker of the House. In order to win the seat, he needs almost all 222 GOP House members to vote for him on Jan. 3. McCarthy faces holdouts in his party, who he says would "squander" a GOP majority by opposing him. McCarthy, in an interview with Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," said those GOP holdouts, by opposing his bid, would be "squandering" the Republican majority set to take control of the House of Representatives in the next congressional session. The 118th Congress, which convenes on January 3, 2023, will have 222 Republican members, compared to 212 Democrats.
Whether it happens, he said, is highly dependent on Republicans' success winning state legislatures during the 2022 midterm elections. But not everyone in the conservative constitutional convention movement believes such a gathering is so imminent. Constitutional convention boosters include many of Trump's current and former allies, including conservative legal scholar John Eastman, Florida Gov. In 2012, the Republican National Committee went so far as to pass a resolution formally opposing the convention movement. A convention of states would be the first of its kind since the original Constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787.
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