Republican leader Kevin McCarthy suffered a historic defeat in first-round voting Tuesday to become House speaker, sending the new Congress into a tangle as conservative colleagues opposed his leadership.
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was dealt a historic defeat in first-round voting Tuesday to become House speaker, sending the new Congress into opening-day tumult as conservative colleagues opposed his leadership.Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who got six votes on the first ballot, rose to agree that McCarthy should get the post. But Rep Matt Gaetz of Florida followed with a vigorous re-endorsement of Joran. underscoring the jumble within the party.
"We may have a battle on the floor, but the battle is for the conference and the country," McCarthy said earlier at the Capitol. "There's one person who could have changed all this," said Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., the chairman of the Freedom Caucus and a leader of Trump's effort to challenge the 2020 presidential election.
"A Latino is nominating in this chamber a Black man for our leader for the the first time in American history," said Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, the third-ranking Democrat, in nominating his colleague. Some of the staunch Republican conservatives challenged McCarthy in the private session. He pushed back, according to a Republican in the room and granted anonymity to discuss the closed-door session.
A viable challenger to McCarthy had yet to emerge. Biggs, R-Ariz., was running as a conservative option, but was not expected to pull a majority. McCarthy defeated him in the November nominating contest, 188-31.
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