McCarthy’s allies, meanwhile, have threatened some of his detractors with having their committee assignments taken away, Biggs said after the meeting. “If you want to drain the swamp, you cannot put the biggest alligator in charge of the exercise.”ĭuring a 90-minute closed-door conference meeting before Tuesday’s vote, McCarthy made a fiery last-minute plea, defending his work as leader and urging his GOP colleagues to rally behind him. McCarthy because time and again his viewpoints, his positions, they shift like sands underneath you,” Gaetz told reporters before Tuesday’s vote.
“It is true that we struggle with trust with Mr. McCarthy's political aspirations are now in serious doubt as that same group of intractable bomb throwers demonstrate that they are willing to go to any length to derail his speaker bid. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, even as Jordan called on Republicans to unite behind McCarthy.
But on the second two rounds, the entire group coalesced around Rep. The last time a speaker vote went to multiple ballots was in 1923, when Speaker Frederick Gillett, R-Mass., won re-election on the ninth ballot.ĭuring Tuesday's initial vote, the majority of the conservatives initially backed one of McCarthy’s chief antagonists, former Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. No other House business can occur until a speaker is selected, which means floor votes, committee hearings and other congressional work will grind to a halt if Republicans can’t agree on a new leader. House rules require lawmakers to keep holding votes for speaker until someone secures 218 votes or a simple majority of members voting. Neither McCarthy allies nor his hard-right enemies are backing down. It’s unclear where Republicans go from here. The House adjourned for the day just before 5:30 p.m. A group of 19 conservatives opposed him in the first two rounds of voting, but by the third, that number grew to 20.
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