Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, holds her smart phone with former US President Donald Trump on the line, as Rep. Tom Emmer has been telling ppl on the floor NOT TO CLAP for Gaetz or Boebert when they announce their votes, per GOP lawmaker on the floor.- Melanie Zanona January 7, 2023 Holdouts Biggs, Boebert, Crane, and Gaetz have all voted “present” - so McCarthy is now lined up to finally become Speaker, without any of them affirming it directly. It wasn’t, as all the former holdouts voted “present” and McCarthy won a spare majority of the 428 members voting.Īfter tonight’s tense ordeal, the new House leadership have mercifully postponed a vote on a rules package until Monday, but they will swear in members after remarks from the new Speaker.
Trump spoke with Gaetz and at least one of the other holdouts, and word got around that they’d surrender. McCarthy personally spoke with Gaetz, who apparently promised to vote for the putative Speaker if his vote was needed. Read on for live updates (with the most recent appearing first) on the chaos in the Capitol.Īfter a long, messy, humiliating wait, Kevin McCarthy is Speaker of the HouseĮD KILGORE: On the 15th ballot, after a few minutes of sweaty madness revolving around an apparent Matt Gaetz refusal to honor a promise to put McCarthy over the top on the 14th, the Californian finally won his gavel. Reportedly none other than Donald J.
Finally in the 15th round, which ended early Saturday morning, he secured enough votes (and “present” votes from holdouts) to become Speaker, at last. Then there was finally some substantive movement towards McCarthy in the 12th and 13th rounds on Friday afternoon, but it still wasn’t enough to end the humiliation. Through Thursday, he has lost the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh rounds of voting as well.
But in the first round of voting on Monday, he lost the votes of 19 Republicans, when he could afford to lose just four defectors. Thanks to an underwhelming midterm for his party, the longtime GOP leader had to unite a cantankerous bunch of House members to get enough votes to become Speaker. Kevin McCarthy is no longer trapped in congressional purgatory.
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