Kevin McCarthy

Republican Kevin McCarthy has lost two rounds of voting to become the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, the first time a nominee has been ...

In the third round, Mr Jordan's tally actually increased to 20 raising the question. But Mr McCarthy has faced opposition from hard-right members of his own party ever since Republicans secured control of the House in last November's midterm elections. Mr Biggs received 10 votes in the first round, while nine Republicans backed other candidates. Summing up the frustration with Mr McCarthy, popular right-wing cable news personality Tucker Carlson said: "McCarthy is not especially conservative. In each of the first two rounds he secured only 203 votes - and in the third round an extra Republican turned against him. It took nine ballots and several days to select a Speaker.

Kevin McCarthy failed three times to get the votes to be Speaker of the US House of Representatives.

Pelosi will continue to represent her California district, but will not be a member of the party's leadership in this Congress. Even in the midst of the Republican revolt, Kevin McCarthy himself looked relaxed. Byron Donalds from Florida has cast his vote for Jordan after voting for McCarthy in the first and second rounds. Sporting a bright pink pantsuit that made her impossible to miss among hundreds of lawmakers, Pelosi received a hearty round of applause from Democrats as she endorsed Jeffries during the first round. His vocal and unflinching support for the former president has led to Jordan becoming a controversial figure in recent years, particularly since Trump left office. The Republican leader had hoped to secure enough votes to be named Speaker of the House. He told her that McCarthy was claiming to be able to persuade Democrats to vote "present" - essentially abstaining from the vote. just outside the House chamber. Watch the play-by-play of how the day unfolded for the top conservative politician. “McCarthy was suggesting he could get Dems to walk away to lower his threshold,” Ocasio-Cortez told The Intercept. The process could continue for some time. The moment was a passing of the baton from one generation of congressional leaders to the next.

'We'll see what happens. We'll see how it all works out,' former president says.

Two subsequent votes also failed, and the House recessed by voice vote shortly after. But let’s see what happens and we’ll go — I got everybody calling, wanting my support,” he said. But I have to tell them, and I have told them, you’re playing a very dangerous game. Mr Trump’s lack of enthusiasm for Mr McCarthy’s candidacy is a significant rebuke to Mr McCarthy, who had personally taken upon himself to rehabilitate the disgraced ex-president by visiting Mr Trump’s Florida residence and allowing himself to be photographed with him just three weeks after he ordered a riotous mob of his supporters to storm Mr McCarthy’s place of work, the US Capitol, in hopes of keeping himself in power against the wishes of American voters. But Mr Trump appears to have changed his tune after Mr McCarthy’s bid for the Speaker’s gavel was stymied by far-right House Republicans, 20 of whom voted against him — 16 more than the maximum number he could lose and still garner votes from a majority of the chamber. I think almost every one of them are very much inclined toward Trump, and me toward them.

The Republicans' first day in the House majority ended in farce as Kevin McCarthy lost three ballots for Speaker because of opposition from a growing group of ...

McCarthy won the majority on the GOP vote in a closed-door session in November but not enough to cinch the deal. McCarthy is expected to continue to make concessions with the holdouts until the moment he is able to grasp the gavel. (L-R) Then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks with Rep. This time around, that will be Pelosi, the California Democrat who held the gavel for the last four years. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) during a news conference with House Democrats about the Build Back Better legislation, outside of the U.S. Then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. Pelosi discussed the speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Congress and likened it to a similar speech by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, in the photo at left, which was attended by her father, a congressman from Maryland The all-time record for duration of a speaker vote was in the mid-1850s — when lawmakers took almost two months and 133 ballots before picking Nathaniel Banks, also of Massachusetts. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) could win a majority vote meaning the House and the Senate would both be under Democratic control - a highly unlikely scenario. While selecting a speaker is the first vote the House will take before new and returning lawmakers are sworn into office on Tuesday. If the House cannot elect someone with a majority of its voting members, Plan B is a parliamentarian's nightmare. Kat Cammack told reporters after House Republicans' closed-door meeting earlier today: 'Kevin McCarthy will be Speaker of the House.

Republican rebels defeated party leader Kevin McCarthy three times. Can he still find a way to win?

One suggestion verged on fantasy (five Republicans decide to vote for Mr Jeffries, a Democrat, and deliver him control of the House). "Kevin McCarthy has not made friends with certain segments of the caucus for a while, he's made a lot of enemies," said one Republican lobbyist, who requested anonymity to speak frankly about Tuesday's vote. The other Republican lobbyist, however, believed there was "no path to victory, at all, period." Mr McCarthy entered into negotiations with his detractors - who see him as too mainstream and power hungry - offering concessions to try to win their vote. That allowed a group of hardline conservatives to band together to oppose his nomination. Instead, Mr McCarthy faced a rebellion from within his own ranks and made history for all the wrong reasons.

The G.O.P. has gone from being a disciplined party of limited government to a party of anti-government protest to, now, a party of performative verbiage.

has gone from being a ruthless and disciplined party of limited government and trickle-down economics to a party of anti-government protest to, now, a party of performative verbiage—in which the likes of Gaetz and Boebert (and, of course, Trump) are far more interested in boosting their follower count, raising money, and appearing on “The Sean Hannity Show” or Newsmax than they are in governance. The irony is that McCarthy had already prostrated himself before the ultras, offering them a series of rule changes, one of which would allow just five representatives to force a vote on ousting the Speaker. Gaetz, in his speech nominating Jordan, described McCarthy as an inveterate swamp creature who “had sold shares of himself for a decade” to get the job of Speaker. Even as McCarthy told reporters that he had no intention of dropping out, it wasn’t evident what good a delay would do. It is the essence of a revolution, especially one staged for social media and Fox News, that the revolutionaries cannot be bought off by members of the corrupt establishment. [Kevin McCarthy](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/26/what-kevin-mccarthy-will-do-to-gain-power), the California Republican who had been confidently predicting a victory despite steadfast opposition from some of the ultra wingnuts in the G.O.P. He must have thought that it would be more rewarding to spend the next two years going after the F.B.I., the Justice Department, and Hunter Biden than trying to deal with the likes of Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Andy Biggs—the outgoing head of the Freedom Caucus, who stood against McCarthy in the first ballot on Monday. Until Monday, the most embarrassing moment of McCarthy’s career was when, three weeks after [January 6th](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/among-the-insurrectionists), he hightailed it down to Mar-a-Lago to pay homage to the disgraced instigator of a failed autogolpe. Having secured the position he wants as chair of the Judiciary Committee, the Ohioan was evidently content to support McCarthy for Speaker rather than pursue the top office himself. Not in a hundred years had it been such fun to be in the new minority party. “I’ve got my popcorn ready,” she joked on Twitter, where she also posted a picture of herself just outside the Speaker’s lobby. Robin Kelly, the Democratic representative of Illinois’s Second District, had the right idea when she headed into the House chamber early Tuesday afternoon.

Republican congressman struggling in bid to become next Speaker of the House.

It is not clear how Mr McCarthy will win the votes he needs in the coming days or if an alternative candidate who can win a majority might emerge. Mr McCarthy is now in a similarly precarious political position. The next day, the newspaper released a special edition headline “Lettuce rejoice”.

Republican rebels defeated party leader Kevin McCarthy three times. Can he still find a way to win?

One suggestion verged on fantasy (five Republicans decide to vote for Mr Jeffries, a Democrat, and deliver him control of the House). "Kevin McCarthy has not made friends with certain segments of the caucus for a while, he's made a lot of enemies," said one Republican lobbyist, who requested anonymity to speak frankly about Tuesday's vote. The other Republican lobbyist, however, believed there was "no path to victory, at all, period." Mr McCarthy entered into negotiations with his detractors - who see him as too mainstream and power hungry - offering concessions to try to win their vote. That allowed a group of hardline conservatives to band together to oppose his nomination. Instead, Mr McCarthy faced a rebellion from within his own ranks and made history for all the wrong reasons.

It is the first time in 100 years that a nominee for House speaker failed to be appointed on the first vote.

After being elected to Congress he quickly became Chief Deputy Whip and later served as Majority Whip. [Why the Republicans are struggling to pick a new House Speaker](https://news.sky.com/story/why-the-republicans-are-struggling-to-pick-a-new-house-speaker-12779825) [Democrat](https://news.sky.com/topic/democratic-party-7248) speaker [Nancy Pelosi](https://news.sky.com/topic/nancy-pelosi-8315) with party leader Mr McCarthy after wresting control of the House in the recent midterm elections It is the first time in 100 years that a nominee for House speaker failed to be appointed on the first vote. And in a post on his social media platform, Mr Trump repeated his support when he wrote: "It's now time for all of our GREAT Republican House Members to VOTE FOR KEVIN, CLOSE THE DEAL, TAKE THE VICTORY. It is the first time in 100 years that a nominee for House speaker failed to be appointed on the first vote with the process leaving the Republicans bitterly divided, despite taking control of the House in the recent elections.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) talks to reporters during a news conference following a GOP caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center Feb.

In the run up to the speaker vote, McCarthy tried everything. That appeared to have the reverse effect of what he and his allies were intending. Trump maintained his power with the base and endorsed scores of candidates in the 2022 midterms. The pair were able to use each other – Trump for normalizing what he did Jan. The ostensible reason for the GOP-led Benghazi investigation was to find out what happened in an attack on an American embassy in Libya, where four people died – not to hurt Clinton. With just a four-seat majority, how can they govern if they're going through all this just to pick a leader? In 2010, Republicans rode the Tea Party wave to win control of the House, but the cost was steep. He seemed willing to do a lot of things to get the job, including burrowing into former President Trump's good graces. Fights over raising the debt ceiling – something that had been routine and protected U.S. How this gets resolved is an open question – either McCarthy somehow wins over the hard-right members who are steadfastly holding out against him or he bows out, clearing the way for someone else. It's an untenable position for the country. Jim Jordan for speaker before a second round of voting Tuesday.

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has failed to be elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives - but if not him, who else could fill the role? After three consecutive rounds of voting on Tuesday, the first day of a new Congress, Mr McCarthy fell ...

But the congressman, who is in line to assume chairmanship of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, insists he does not want the job and spoke in favour of electing Mr McCarthy on Tuesday. Mr Biggs, 64, was nominated by a colleague as an alternative option for Speaker on Tuesday but received only 10 votes, including his own, in the first round. In three successive ballots, all 212 Democrats in the chamber voted for their own leader, New York congressman Hakeem Jeffries. He said neither Mr McCarthy nor anyone who has been in Republican House leadership over the past 10 years were acceptable to him. She was re-elected to the position this November. Candidates for speaker must be nominated by members of the House, but they don't need to be elected lawmakers of the chamber, according to the US Constitution.

House adjourned until noon today as McCarthy becomes the first nominee for speaker in 100 years to fail to win the first vote. Plus, the truth behind 10 of ...

You drink a lot of water in Antarctica because it is so dry, which means going to the toilet in the middle of the night and getting out of bed to walk through a corridor with the sunlight streaming in at 2am. [heavier, potato-shaped stones can achieve more dramatic results](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/04/potato-shaped-stones-are-better-for-skimming-say-experts), which blast the rock into the air. In summer, the strangest thing to get used to is the 24 hours of sun. Intense scrutiny has been applied to his claims about his education and career in business and to elements of his personal story, including his supposed descent from Holocaust survivors and a claim that his mother died as a result of the 9/11 attacks. I thought the weather was going to be brutal all the time – I didn’t think there would be days where I could walk out in a T-shirt and a hoodie. The group, which is acknowledged as a religion by the US government, has seven fundamental tenets, one of which states: “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.” With lawsuits filed in Indiana, Idaho, Texas and Missouri, the Satanic Temple is about to find out whether US courts agree. The Republican opposition to McCarthy has been led by members of the House Freedom Caucus, a hard-right group that has pushed for changes to chamber rules. Now a minority religion is fighting for the right to abortion. He had acknowledged he was unlikely to win on the first ballot, setting the stage for a potentially lengthy delay before new members of the House could be sworn in. Scott Perry, the Freedom Caucus chair, reiterated his opposition yesterday and accused McCarthy of failing to work in good faith with his group. In the first two ballots to decide the next speaker, 19 Republicans opposed McCarthy, leaving him 15 votes short of the 218 needed to win.

'We'll see what happens. We'll see how it all works out,' former president says.

Two subsequent votes also failed, and the House recessed by voice vote shortly after. But let’s see what happens and we’ll go — I got everybody calling, wanting my support,” he said. But I have to tell them, and I have told them, you’re playing a very dangerous game. Mr Trump’s lack of enthusiasm for Mr McCarthy’s candidacy is a significant rebuke to Mr McCarthy, who had personally taken upon himself to rehabilitate the disgraced ex-president by visiting Mr Trump’s Florida residence and allowing himself to be photographed with him just three weeks after he ordered a riotous mob of his supporters to storm Mr McCarthy’s place of work, the US Capitol, in hopes of keeping himself in power against the wishes of American voters. But Mr Trump appears to have changed his tune after Mr McCarthy’s bid for the Speaker’s gavel was stymied by far-right House Republicans, 20 of whom voted against him — 16 more than the maximum number he could lose and still garner votes from a majority of the chamber. I think almost every one of them are very much inclined toward Trump, and me toward them.

It was the first time in 100 years that a nominee for House speaker could not take the gavel on the first vote.

But the dynamic proved no different from Day One, as Democrats re-upped their leader, Hakeem Jeffries, for speaker, and a right-flank leader from the Freedom Caucus offered a challenge to Mr McCarthy – nominating Mr Donalds in another history making moment. For a fourth, fifth and sixth time, Republicans tried to vote Mr McCarthy into the top job as the House plunged deeper into disarray. Tensions flared among the new House majority as their campaign promises stalled out. Animated private discussions broke out on the chamber floor between McCarthy supporters and detractors searching for an endgame. “This is actually an invigorating day for America,” said Byron Donalds, who was nominated three times by his conservative colleagues as an alternative. They were due back at 8pm.

Donald Trump has thrown his weight behind Kevin McCarthy's bid to become the next Speaker of the House, in an effort to quell opposition to the California ...

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Mr Gaetz twisted the knife in over the dismal day by branding Mr McCarthy a “squatter” in the House speaker's office – which the congressman had already began ...

In other words, if McCarthy stumbles, they want to take it behind closed doors for a reckoning within the splintered club/family/party.— Robert Costa (@costareports) The views of Mr McCarthy’s critics are important given that he will be attempting to win them over should voting go to a second round in tomorrow’s election for speaker. "We don't want this playing out in front of a global television audience, take it to conference." This means that the vote will occur without regular procedures in place. ICYMI: Critics of GOP leader Kevin McCarthy are advising against the public spectacle that would inevitably follow a battle on the House floor for control of the speaker’s gavel as it becomes clearer and clearer that he has not yet secured the votes to lead the chamber come Tueday. GOP leader Kevin McCarthy moved his things into the suite utilised by the Speaker of the House as he presumes that he will be elected to the position on Tuesday. Mr Buck and Mr Ryan’s wing of the GOP in general is thought to be disgusted with how Mr McCarthy has sought to placate conservatives and Trump acolytes as GOP minority leader; Mr Ryan publicly supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump. The election of the House speaker takes place before the chamber has settled on the rules for the next In a new op-ed in the Daily Caller, he warns that he and others will work with Democrats to elect an “agreeable” Republican if a faction of pro-Trump conservatives block Mr McCarthy from winning the speaker’s gavel. Kevin McCarthy tweeted last week that he would allow the GOP to pursue an investigation into the origins of Covid-19 once the GOP takes control of the House of Representatives. Brendan Buck argues in The New York Times that the goal of GOP rebels in the House may not be to unseat Kevin McCarthy as GOP leader and deny him the speakership. The goal instead may be to publicly weaken him politically, maximising the power that conservatives and Trump acolytes will have in the House for the next two years.

The day of high political drama was the first time in a century the House had failed to choose a Speaker after a first round vote.

The day of high political drama was the first time in a century the House had failed to choose a Speaker after a first round vote. The day of high political drama was the first time in a century the House had failed to choose a Speaker after a first round vote [US](/topic/us) [House of Representatives](/topic/house-of-representatives) is in [chaos](/topic/chaos) after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy repeatedly failed in his bid to be elected [Speaker](/topic/speaker).

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has again failed to win the House speaker role in dramatic fourth round voting as the chamber plunged into Day Two of the ...

But the dynamic proved no different from Day One, as Democrats re-upped their leader, Hakeem Jeffries, for speaker, and a right-flank leader from the Freedom Caucus offered a challenge to Mr McCarthy – nominating Mr Donalds in another history making moment. For a fourth, fifth and sixth time, Republicans tried to vote Mr McCarthy into the top job as the House plunged deeper into disarray. Tensions flared among the new House majority as their campaign promises stalled out. Animated private discussions broke out on the chamber floor between McCarthy supporters and detractors searching for an endgame. “This is actually an invigorating day for America,” said Byron Donalds, who was nominated three times by his conservative colleagues as an alternative. They were due back at 8pm.

Lauren Boebert, a firm Colorado conservative, nominated Byron Donalds, the chosen protest candidate of the day — and called for former president Donald Trump, ...

But the dynamic proved no different from Day One, as Democrats re-upped their leader, Hakeem Jeffries, for speaker, and a right-flank leader from the Freedom Caucus offered a challenge to Mr McCarthy – nominating Mr Donalds in another history making moment. For a fourth, fifth and sixth time, Republicans tried to vote Mr McCarthy into the top job as the House plunged deeper into disarray. Tensions flared among the new House majority as their campaign promises stalled out. Animated private discussions broke out on the chamber floor between McCarthy supporters and detractors searching for an endgame. “This is actually an invigorating day for America,” said Byron Donalds, who was nominated three times by his conservative colleagues as an alternative. They were due back at 8pm.

Republican leader's prospects dim as he continues to fall short on the second day of voting.

The continued chaos came after the first three votes held on Tuesday failed to produce a winner. After demanding a number of changes to chamber rules, one anti-McCarthy lawmaker suggested the leader’s handling of policy was to blame for his poor standing among certain conference members. Congressman Jimmy Gomez, a Democrat from California who brought his four-month-old to the Capitol for a swearing-in ceremony that has still not happened, [tweeted](https://twitter.com/repjimmygomez/status/1610401873919459328) a photo of his son: “Two bottle feeds and multiple diaper changes on the Democratic cloakroom floor. But his declaration did little to change the minds of the conservatives dug in against McCarthy, some of whom are the former president’s staunchest allies on Capitol Hill. The tension in the House chamber seemed to ratchet up on Wednesday as the votes stretched on. [tweeted out](https://twitter.com/RepRobinKelly/status/1610325404878880768) photos of themselves enjoying popcorn as the floor fight unfolded on Tuesday. Democrats lost that effort by only a handful of votes, a possible sign of more struggles to come as a divided Republican party takes their narrow majority in the In his floor speech, Gallagher acknowledged the chaos that has consumed the election so far and lamented the party’s narrow majority. In remarks nominating Donalds for speaker on the fifth vote, the far-right conservative congresswoman Lauren Boebert suggested that Trump reverse course and tell McCarthy: “It’s time to withdraw.” After the House adjourned for a few hours, McCarthy and his allies went into negotiations with the Republican holdouts without a clear path forward to end the standoff, then pushed back a seventh vote on the House leadership until Thursday. The stalemate marked the first time in a century that a House speaker was not chosen in the initial vote. Twenty conservatives opposed to McCarthy’s bid rallied behind Congressman Byron Donalds of Florida, while Congresswoman Victoria Spartz of Indiana, who had supported the Republican leader in earlier rounds of balloting, voted “present”.

As Republicans fight over who will lead the House of Representatives, gamblers don't like Kevin McCarthy's odds.

I believe in the many virtues of vices. I am a staff writer on the vices beat, covering cannabis, gambling and more. At BetOnline, a website based in Panama, McCarthy is still the favorite at -125 odds while Steve Scalise (R-La.) is at +190. In a chaotic, historical event like the speaker nomination, even people in Congress don’t know what the outcome will be. As for 2024 presidential election, Krishnamurty expects big money to be wagered: “Sky’s the limit.” At BetOnline, bettors have wagered about $20,000 on Trump becoming speaker over the last two years. Gambling on politics is illegal in the U.S. Armed with research, Jake is “going all in” on Kevin McCarthy to become the next speaker, even though he lost three times on Tuesday, the first roll call for the 118th Congress. [PredictIt](https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7326/Who-will-be-Speaker-of-the-House-of-Representatives-in-the-next-Congress), one of the only legal platforms in the U.S. And, technically, it’s not a gambling website: the platform is ostensibly an academic research tool like the Iowa Political Exchange. The site, which is operated by Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, has been running since 2014, thanks to a no-action letter provided by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The debacle marked the first time in 100 years that the House majority failed to elect a speaker during its first day in session.

It was the first time in 100 years that a nominee for House speaker could not take the gavel on the first vote.

But the dynamic proved no different from Day One, as Democrats re-upped their leader, Hakeem Jeffries, for speaker, and a right-flank leader from the Freedom Caucus offered a challenge to Mr McCarthy – nominating Mr Donalds in another history making moment. For a fourth, fifth and sixth time, Republicans tried to vote Mr McCarthy into the top job as the House plunged deeper into disarray. Tensions flared among the new House majority as their campaign promises stalled out. Animated private discussions broke out on the chamber floor between McCarthy supporters and detractors searching for an endgame. “This is actually an invigorating day for America,” said Byron Donalds, who was nominated three times by his conservative colleagues as an alternative. They were due back at 8pm.

The lower house must elect a new leader after the Republicans took control of it in the midterm elections in November, securing a slim 222-212 majority.

In further comments, Mr Donalds said: "This is actually an invigorating day for America. There's a lot of members in the chamber who want to have serious conversations about how we can bring this all to a close and elect a speaker." The last time the House failed to elect a speaker on the first ballot was a century ago, in 1923.

The US House of Representatives will return on Thursday after six failed votes. What needs to change?

He is considered a staunch, southern conservative and has literally bled for the party, having been seriously wounded in the 2017 attack on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice. Could such a thing happen in the US House of Representatives, as well? Surrender has to be considered a possible, even likely, outcome for Mr McCarthy after more than two days of failure. He also agreed to lower the threshold for triggering a vote on whether to unseat the speaker to only one House member. His hope is that momentum toward victory would increase the pressure for those opposing him to throw in the towel and placate rank-and-file members on his side who are getting increasingly frustrated at the ongoing deadlock. The current strategy from Kevin McCarthy appears to be to fight a war of attrition.

House Republicans have for the second day been unable to either elect their leader Kevin McCarthy as House speaker or come up with a suitable alternative.

It was the first time in 100 years that a nominee for House speaker could not take the gavel on the first vote, but Mr McCarthy appeared undeterred. “At the end of the day, we’ll be able to get there.” Yet Mr McCarthy was not giving up, even after the fourth, fifth and sixth ballots produced no better outcome and he was left trying to call off a night-time session. “I think people need to work a little more,” Mr McCarthy said. “I still have the most votes,” Mr McCarthy said at the start of the session. Mr McCarthy, the California Republican, vowed to fight to the finish for the speaker’s job despite the gruelling spectacle, unlike any in modern times, that threw the new majority into tumult for the first days of the new Congress.