McCarthy's race for speaker risks upending House on Day One
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his quest to rise to House speaker, Kevin McCarthy is charging straight into history — potentially becoming the first nominee in 100 years unable to win the job on a first-round floor vote.
The increasingly real prospect of a messy fight over the speaker’s gavel on Day One of the new Congress on Jan. 3 is worrying House Republicans, who are bracing for the spectacle. They have been meeting endlessly in private at the Capitol trying to resolve the standoff.
Taking hold of a perilously slim 222-seat Republican majority in the 435-member House and facing a handful of defectors, McCarthy is working furiously to reach the 218-vote threshold typically needed to become speaker.
“The fear is, that if we stumble out of the gate,” said Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., a McCarthy ally, then the voters who sent the Republicans to Washington “will revolt over that and they will feel let down.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mccarthys-race-speaker-risks-upending-130003087.html
The House GOP is going to be a clusterfuck no matter who gets elected speaker. Buckle up folks. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
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All dems should vote for Lauren Boebert.
Just enough to put the pressure on the repubs.
Would the repubs select their own incompetence?
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