BREAKING: House adjourns for 2nd day without a speaker after Kevin McCarthy fails to win enough Republican support
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has lost the sixth round of voting for speaker. Josh Einiger has more.House Republicans flailed through a long second day of fruitless balloting Wednesday, unable to either elect their leader Kevin McCarthy as House speaker or come up with a new strategy to end the political chaos that has tarnished the start of their new majority.
In fact, McCarthy saw his support slip to 201, as one fellow Republican switched to vote simply present. McCarthy, the California Republican, vowed to fight to the finish for the speaker's job despite the grueling spectacle, unlike any in modern times, that threw the new majority into tumult for the first days of the new Congress. Animated private discussions broke out on the chamber floor and in huddled meeting throughout the Capitol between McCarthy supporters and detractors searching for an offramp.
"This is actually an invigorating day for America," said Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., who was nominated three times by his conservative colleagues as an alternative. "There's a lot of members in the chamber who want to have serious conversations about how we can bring this all to a close and elect a speaker."
"This country needs leadership," said Rep. Chip Roy, the Texas Republican noting the first time in history two Black Americans were nominated for the high office, and lawmakers from both parties rose to applaud. "I just think it's really embarrassing it's taking so long," Biden said. "I have no idea" who will prevail.
Earlier Wednesday, Trump had done the opposite, urging Republicans to vote for McCarthy. "Close the deal, take the victory," he wrote on his social media site, using all capital letters. "Do not turn a great triumph into a giantAs the spectacle of voting dragged on, McCarthy's backers implored the holdouts to fall in line for the California Republican.
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