For the first time in a century, the vote to select a new Speaker of the House advanced beyond a single ballot on Tuesday. Yet according to Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld, the ordeal being televised on nearly every major news channel was much ado about nothing.
was apparently lost on Gutfeld, who struggled to make a coherent argument against its newsworthiness.
“But because it’s on our shows now, they are like, ‘Okay, this is for my future. I’m going to be like, I need to do this to make the people on Twitter happy... or [so] my buddies on television will invite me more often, because I’m seen as feisty,’” Gutfled continued, not making clear who exactly he was referring to.
The House ultimately voted to adjourn until Wednesday at noon—but not before McCarthy fell 16 votes short in the third round of voting. Rep. Jim Jordan received 20 votes, one of which came from Rep. Byron Donalds , who had previously backed McCarthy. Even Fox News anchorsTuesday’s events as “pretty bad,” even approaching an “unmitigated disaster” for McCarthy.
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