Defiant GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy pushes ahead with speaker bid despite disarray among House Republicans
McCarthy failed to get the 218 votes needed on the House floor on Tuesday to win the gavel, as 19 and then 20 Republicans lined up against him on three successive ballots.With Republicans controlling a narrow majority in the House, the impasse was a dramatic display of how a small group of disaffected conservatives could derail McCarthy's long-held ambitions.
To become speaker, the Republican would need to flip the votes of at least 11 GOP holdouts and convince the remainder to vote “present,” lowering the threshold needed to win a majority. “I’m not sure there is a way out, quite honestly,” Rep. Scott Perry , chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, told the Hill Tuesday night. Perry joined members of his caucus in backing Rep. Jim Jordan on Tuesday.
“The sooner we all come together, just keep a calm head — I know you guys get excited,” he said Tuesday night. “I don’t think if you watch me that I get excited — do I want to go through all this? No. But I think at the end of the day, it’s better to go through this now so we can be successful for this term and keep our promise to the American people.”
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