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Kevin McCarthy poised to lose first-round vote for Speaker for the first time in a century | Update: McCarthy "wins" Speakership in the FIFTEENTH round...on a technicality

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10 minutes ago, chakoo said:

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:sickos:It would have been great if Jordan got more votes this round than the other R nominations in the first round.

 

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Don't get me wrong, Jordan can go ***k himself, I just want to see the chaos. He wouldn't get enough votes to actually win.

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Until someone gets a majority of the vote from the whole House. CNN has a good breakdown here:

 

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What you need to know about the House speaker election | CNN Politics

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Rep. Kevin McCarthy has a math problem, and he has to solve it by January 3. When the new Congress assembles on that date, it establishes a quorum, and then its first action will be a roll call vote to elect a new speaker. Not until after this election does the House get down to business.
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Ronna McDaniel slams House Republicans over speaker vote: 'We're doing exactly what the Democrats want'

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Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel calls for party unity after House speaker front-runner Kevin McCarthy failed to acquire the necessary majority.

Lmao those dastardly dems are telling us what to do

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Just now, Jason said:

lol he's losing votes now

 

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That lines up with this CNN report:

 

"A warning sign for Kevin McCarthy – conservative supporter Rep. Ken Buck says he believes the House GOP leader will eventually lose more backing if the voting drags out.

 

Buck, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, believes more Republicans will defect from McCarthy. He does not expect those who oppose McCarthy to be won over. 

 

This is key because Buck has been talking to the hard-liners but he doesn’t see them to be moving.

 

“I think it’s more likely that some of the other folks change their view” in backing McCarthy, he told CNN.


Asked if he himself could defect from McCarthy, Buck said, “I think eventually you have to."

 

"The only thing that could change is Democrats walking away and not voting and then the denominator changes," Buck said. "Otherwise Republicans are gonna have to start moving around.”

 

During the third round of voting, Rep. Byron Donalds switched his vote from McCarthy to Rep. Jim Jordan.""

 

 

 

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