Republican House leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy appeared no closer Wednesday to securing the 218 votes he needs to be elected speaker.
In the fifth vote in two days, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is again failing to secure enough support to win the House speakership.Donalds and Democratic Speaker nominee Rep. Hakeem Jeffries together marked the first time that two Black Americans have ever been nominated for House speaker.
The previous vote saw a core group of 20 GOP holdouts nominate and vote for Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, a sophomore Republican lawmaker who on Tuesday had publicly shifted his support away from McCarthy. While the vote is still ongoing, McCarthy has already lost about a dozen Republicans. U.S. Rep.-elect Lauren Boebert delivers remarks in the House Chamber during the second day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 04, 2023 in Washington, DC.Together, Donalds and Jeffries marked the first time that two Black Americans have ever been nominated for House speaker.
"There's a lack of respect for the sworn duty we all have to defend the Constitution and get the job done for the American people," she told reporters in the Capitol on Wednesday. Despite Trump's broad support among conservative Republican voters, it was not clear his new endorsement would move the needle for any of the holdouts in Congress. While the group of 20 far-right Republicans are all close Trump allies, the former president's name and his "America First" message have been notably absent from the intraparty GOP debate raging behind closed doors.
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