from the united states all around the world, [ cheering ] the 15th time is a charm for kevin mccarthy, after four days and a bruising floor fight, the california republican is officially the new speaker of the u.s. house of representatives, all the dramatic scenes unfolding exactly 2 years after a violent mob stormed the capital in a failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election, we will show you how the white house marks the anniversary. the promised christmas fire fails, spending the holiday and bomb shelters. live from cnn center, this is a cnn newsroom, with layla harak. 15 bouts and evening of high drama but kevin mccarthy secured enough votes to become speaker of the house. never has a leadership contest taken so many votes in modern times and out of 222 republicans in the house it only took six hard-line conservatives to derail him in the 14th ballot on friday night, a vote he had believed was in the bag. but right-wing firebrand matt gaetz, who had sworn to ne
run this last name to be speaker. that was not a foregone conclusion. you had various members of the democratic caucus who ran for election, saying they would not support her for speaker. so she had to make concessions to her caucus, including imposing self-imposed term limits on herself, letting them know she wouldn t stick around for ever. there was a moment in time that marcia fudge, who was then a congresswoman from ohio, was threatening to run for speaker against nancy pelosi. so what pelosi did to bring her on board and to eliminate that threat was to make marcia fudge part of the democratic leadership, by co-opting her, giving her skin in the game to make sure that the suck es of the success of the majority was important to her and not just nancy pelosi. in many ways what kevin mccarthy did, while it took longer and was more acrimonious than what happened with pelosi, many of the tools he used to get to the
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