WASHINGTON, Jan 5 — The deeply-riven US House of Representatives was engulfed in crisis for a second day running Wednesday as fresh rounds of voting failed to produce a winner in...
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 — The deeply-riven US House of Representatives was engulfed in crisis for a second day running Wednesday as fresh rounds of voting failed to produce a winner in the race for speaker.
Increasingly bitter infighting — described by Democratic President Joe Biden as “embarrassing” — has made the 2023 speakership race the first in a century to require multiple rounds of voting. McCarthy — who has raised millions of dollars to elect right-wing lawmakers — dragged his party back to a 222-212 House majority in last year’s midterms after four years in the wilderness.
CNN reported that the rival sides were in talks about setting up a group to break the stalemate, made up of four McCarthy allies and four representatives of the rebel Republicans. The comments didn’t move the needle at all on the House floor and were curtly dismissed by normally staunch Trump ally Lauren Boebert, who said her “favourite president” had things back to front.
Should McCarthy, who has lost every round so far to Democratic minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, ultimately decide to pull out, the two parties are likely to start casting around for a “unity” candidate — a consensus Republican willing to work across the aisle.The Republicans will first consult their own ranks though, where two McCarthy loyalists — incoming House majority leader Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan, a darling of the right — look like the most viable alternatives.
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