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37m ago
21.12 GMT
Today so far
Hello
again, US politics blog readers, the drama in Washington is far from over as
the election for House Speaker is still inconclusive.
Republican
Kevin McCarthy is suffering a humiliating drubbing at the hands of his supposed
fellows, as right-wing rebels turn the first day of GOP control of the House in
the new Congress into a crisis for the party.
We are
about to witness the third round of voting. Louisiana’s Steve Scalise just rose
to his feet to nominate McCarthy for speaker.
My
colleague in California, Maanvi Singh, will take the helm of this blog now and
we’ll continue to bring you the developments as they happen.
Here’s
where things stand:
As we head for an excruciating third round of
voting in the election for House Speaker, there is no sign of California
Republican Kevin McCarthy, who has long aspired to step into the role, gaining
a majority of the votes.
Kevin McCarthy suffers defeat in second round of
voting in House speaker election. It’s an epic loss for McCarthy and warring
House Republicans. The second round of voting – which has not happened in a
century – ended with McCarthy nowhere near a majority.
Right-winger Jim Jordan of Ohio, who is a
McCarthy supporter but was nominated by anti-McCarthy rebel Matt Gaetz to
disrupt everything, already took 19 votes in the second round of voting in the
election for House speaker.
The first round of voting delivered a humiliating
defeat for Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become House speaker. He just made history
in the worst way. The first person in a century to lose the vote for speaker in
the first round.
After the roll call vote in the first round,
Democratic minority leader Hakeem Jeffries had 212 votes, McCarthy had just
203, Republican strategic thorn Andy Biggs (nominated by rightwing rebel Paul
Gosar) had 10 votes and nine lawmakers supported none of the three hats in the
ring.
All the new members of Congress elected in the
midterm elections in November will arrive on Capitol Hill today, many with
family in tow, waiting to be sworn in to the brand new 118th Congress. There
will be exuberant scenes but the House speaker vote comes first.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy faces
historic struggle to clinch speakership, with a battle royale on Capital Hill.
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