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This just in…
Kevin McCarthy has lost his bid to be the next Speaker of the House on the second ballot.
— Emerald Robinson ✝️ (@EmeraldRobinson) January 3, 2023
Things are getting very interesting:
JUST IN: The vote for House speaker will go to a second ballot for the first time in 100 years as Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy suffers a humiliating defeat on the first ballot https://t.co/MWxkIps4fb
— CNN (@CNN) January 3, 2023
McCarthy, meanwhile, is promising to go to WAR.
House confronts once-in-a-century fight to elect speaker as McCarthy fails to lock down votes
(CNN) — 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 first round of voting. The chamber is voting on a second ballot, something that hasn’t happened since 1923.
The outcome of Tuesday’s initial vote, taking place on the first day of the 118th Congress, is a major blow that throws into question whether McCarthy will be able to win the speaker’s race, though the GOP leader has vowed to stay in the race.
The new House Republican majority is now facing a contentious, drawn-out fight that threatens to deepen divides within the party with McCarthy’s political career on the line. And the deal-making McCarthy has engaged in to try to win over critics may mean he has a weaker hand to play in his position of authority if he does become speaker.
Sources with knowledge of McCarthy’s thinking say he is still confident that he will eventually get the 218 votes to be elected. But there is no way of guessing how long the voting will go or how many ballots it will take.
McCarthy remains defiant in the face of opposition, with people close to him summing up his mentality as this: “We’re going to war,” a senior GOP source tells CNN. “Never backing down.”
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