GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz cast his vote for former president Donald Trump in the seventh attempt for the House of Representatives to nominate a speaker, an effort to thwart Kevin McCarthy.
This is a break from the faction of 20 House Republicans who’d been voting for Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Florida) and blocking GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy from winning the speakership.
The Constitution does not specify that the speaker must actually be a member of the House and the Congressional Research Service emphasized that point in a 2021 report about elections for the speaker.
“Although the Constitution does not so require, the Speaker has always been a Member of the House,” the report said, and outlined recent instances where non-members received votes.
The seventh vote for speaker turned out no different from the others, with McCarthy well short of the required majority.
McCarthy emerged from a morning meeting with colleagues at the Capitol determined to persuade Republican holdouts to end the stalemate that has blighted his new GOP majority.
Despite endless talks, signs of concessions and a public spectacle unlike any other in recent political memory, the path ahead remained highly uncertain. The day started as the other two have, with Republican allies nominating him for now a seventh time to be speaker.
Republican John James of Michigan put McCarthy’s name up for a vote, with a nod to history.
“My family’s gone from being slaves to the floor of the United States House of Representatives” in five generations, said James, a newly elected lawmaker to be, who is Black.
He said that while the House Republicans were “stuck” at the moment, McCarthy, who has failed to seize a majority to become speaker, would ultimately win.
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Could this be a sinister conspiracy by the Republicans to lure the Democrats into complacency?
Although it’s a bit embarrassing to see what’s going on on our side of the aisle, I honor and respect the few good people that are left in congress who it seems are looking to make real change. I know that the Hannitys of the world are all up in arms, but the fact is, the current candidate for speaker is not a conservative. He’s a get along sort of guy. Look where that has gotten us. We need a principled stand for what is right, or it’s all over.
I suspect he doesn’t realize or care that he is degrading himself and the House as an institution by his vote. As one Republican congressman just noted, “the stench” is real.
These ununified Republicans might be handing over next presidency to rats on a silver plater.
Utter waste of time. No better then chuckle, Nancy…
Sick and tired of the these politicians.
What is insane, pray tell. Donald Trump for speaker! What genius! I heard about this plan a long time ago. Would be a balm for America.
So amusing!!! EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. the name Trump is mentioned in any way, shape or form, Idiot In Chief @katanhadorah gets triggered in a way that it’s just hilarious.
On the Contrary:- Anything but insanity, because President Donald Trump שליט”א is the best thing that could possibly happen for many reasons:-
1) President Donald Trump שליט”א as speaker would be an awful thorn for the Democrats with all the upcoming inquiries.
2) This would keep President Donald Trump שליט”א too occupied to run for the presidency, thus vacating this slot for a more mainstream Republican in order to win 2024
Why would it be “more insanity” for one of the real MAGA crazies to nominate the crazy- in- chief to take over the asylum?
P.S. It turns out the Trumpkopf wasn’t so happy with Gaetz nominating him since the result was to show he got only ONE vote (aka Gaetz). He doesn’t like being shown on national TV as a “loser” with a vote of 204 to 1 among members of his own party.
Sick of Idiots: Yup and obviously you make exceptions for mamash idiots like Gaetz and the stable genius hiding out in a make-believe oval office above the kitchen in Mar a Lago. No one seems to care anymore about his views on anything. If McCarthy withdraws, he will claim he engineered the outcome. If he wins, he will claim it was only because of his endorsement.
Karan: Dies your ps have a mekor?
Katan:
Does your ps have a mekor?