Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is heading toward defeat in first round voting to become Hous speaker
after two years of a Democratic Party control of both houses of Congress.
Democrats leapt to applause, many casting their votes “proudly," as one Black lawmaker, Rep. Joyce Beatty of Ohio said, for the historic new Democratic leader. 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,The second-ranking House Republican, Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, would be an obvious next choice, a conservative widely liked by his colleagues and seen by some as a hero after surviving a gunshot wound suffered during a congressional baseball game practice in 2017.
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