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Two more votes were held this Wednesday to elect the speaker of the House after three failed attempts on Tuesday that exposed the crisis that exists within the Republican party, because although they are a majority, they fail to position Kevin McCarthy as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives.
At noon this Wednesday, the chamber met again after the elected members adjourned shortly before 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 3, and although the most optimistic, including McCarthy, hoped to get a response in the fourth voting was not like that, not even in the fifth…
McCarthy does not plan to resign
In an interview with ABC, McCarthy made it clear that it was not the day he wanted to have, but he said he felt “very good” and confirmed that there is no scenario in which he resigns his offer as a speaker.
“Let’s take a different perspective. You have 202 votes. So technically you only need 11 more votes to win. Is there anyone in the conference who can win? It’s okay, I don’t think it’s there. So we can go round and round. Either it will turn out that someone will make a mistake and elect a Democrat or we will find a way to work together to be able to govern, ”said the representative of California to the aforementioned medium.
Trump called for union among Republicans
After McCarthy failed to get the minimum votes, 218, the former president Donald Trump did not dare to say if he continued to support his colleague and just said “we’ll see what happens”However, his speech changed.
This Wednesday morning Trump asked his party to “vote for Kevin,” to send “crazy Nancy Pelosi flying back to her California home,” and not to turn “a huge win into a giant, embarrassing loss.”
Some really good talks took place last night, and now it’s time for all of our GREAT Republican members of the House to vote for Kevin, close the deal, take victory, and watch crazy Nancy Pelosi fly home to a California very broken The only speaker in history to have lost his house twice!” the former president said in a post on his Truth Social platform.
He also asked the members of his party Don’t turn a “big win into a giant loss.”
Republicans, don’t turn a big win into a giant, embarrassing loss. It’s time to celebrate, you deserve it. Kevin McCarthy will do a good job and maybe even a great job, he just watch!” Trump wrote.