end up with a new kachb date? let s bring in one of the 20 rebellious republicans, chip roy of texas, a member of the house freedom caucus nominated jim jordan for the speaker ership the third ballot. congressman roy, thanks for joining us. you ve been vocal about the opposition to mccarthy to be speaker and nominated jim jordan this time round and voted for biron donaldson. you seem different from some of your rebels, though, that you seem actually focussed on a set of pri of principles and rule sets. do you agree with that assessment or no? first of all, thanks for having me on. that s close to correct. i would take some issue with saying that i ve been in constant opposition to mccarthy as much as trying to offer changes that i think are p paramount to make the housework again. that s a bipartisan criticism. we haven t had an open debate since 2016. we can t keep spending money we don t have and allow the border to be wide open and endanger people and keep business as us
The new House Republican majority faces a once-in-a-century fight to elect the next speaker after GOP leader Kevin McCarthy failed to lock down the votes needed to win in the
The election for House speaker is becoming a slogfest after Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) lost a third ballot for the gavel with no winner in sight.
The new House Republican majority is locked in a once-in-a-century fight to elect the next speaker after GOP leader Kevin McCarthy failed to secure the support to win in two
that kevin got up and said what more do you want and the answer was esessentially, we don t wan you. it s not about policy or practice. when we voted against john boehner, we did it because he was trying to marginalize the conservatives. mccarthy wants to make jim jordan on the committee. i don t think it s practical. i don t think it s policy. i just think it s a combination of they don t like kevin and they like the attention and that s a really, really bad way to run a speaker race. i understand that you don t think bad behavior should be rewarded but we are now in a place as a country that we have not been in since 1923 with somebody running for speaker and not winning on the first ballot, second ballot, third ballot, who knows how long this will go. at what point do you start thinking i don t know that kevin mccarthy can win and even if he can, i don t know he can be the speaker effectively given the fact that he can t even get this