(WASHINGTON) The House Republican leadership drama enters a second day Wednesday after three failed votes to decide on a speaker Tuesday. Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is so far being stymied by a small group of hardliners demanding concessions or alternative candidates. The House can conduct no other business and members can't be sworn
The last time a Speaker of the House vote went beyond the first round of voting happened in 1923. Now, exactly 100 years later, it has happened again as political chaos hit Capitol Hill on day one of the new Congress.
Donald Trump, who’d endorsed Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid for House speaker, declined to say Tuesday whether he still supports his longtime ally after he failed to clinch the job in three separate votes.
Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has fallen short in a fourth vote to choose the speaker of the House after another night and morning of negotiating failed to sway Republican detractors to his side.