The House of Representatives failed to elect a House Speaker through three rounds of voting. Approximately 20 members of the Republican conference will not vote for Kevin McCarthy, as a result there is a stalemate. The Republican caucus requested adjournment until noon tomorrow, Wednesday January 4th.
Essentially Kevin McCarthy needs to: (1) step aside and accept he will not be Speaker, or (2) continue the House voting in futility, or (3) find a way to convince the Republican holdouts to support him.
“They’re just not into you Kevin”…
This has happened before, just not in the modern political era. The holdouts want Jim Jordan to accept the Speaker position.
Don’t get defrosted, worried or overly attached to any outcome. This is simply the way our system was designed.
I for one, am very happy to see the republicans actually doing something besides bending over for the uniparty. Apparently some of our elected representatives are actually listening to the people who they suppose to represent. I really want someone other than McCarthy to be speaker, be it Jordan, Roy, Gatez or another member of the Freedom Caucus, it would signal a slight turn towards representing the people not the corrupt globalist cabal and perhaps give republicans a little bit of the courage they have historically lacked.
Interesting in that, despite McCarthy advising, after Trump’s presidency, that he was not a ‘white hat’ to Trump, Trump has now come out and endorsed McCarthy for Speaker.
“What difference does it make”. The Chamber will control whomever is picked as Speaker.
Except the 20 have no plan?