Kevin McCarthy

Republican Kevin McCarthy has lost two rounds of voting to become the next Speaker of the House of Representatives, the first time a nominee has been ...

In the third round, Mr Jordan's tally actually increased to 20 raising the question. But Mr McCarthy has faced opposition from hard-right members of his own party ever since Republicans secured control of the House in last November's midterm elections. Mr Biggs received 10 votes in the first round, while nine Republicans backed other candidates. Summing up the frustration with Mr McCarthy, popular right-wing cable news personality Tucker Carlson said: "McCarthy is not especially conservative. In each of the first two rounds he secured only 203 votes - and in the third round an extra Republican turned against him. It took nine ballots and several days to select a Speaker.

It was the kind of debacle not seen on the House floor in a century, and a stunning lesson on the state of the modern Republican Party.

[Farrah Tomazin](/by/farrah-tomazin-hve4c)is the North America correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via And in the clearest sign of a weakened leader beholden to his right flank, he even agreed to change party rules so it would be easier to oust him as Speaker by lowering the threshold of votes required to do so. and certain budgets,” he said before the voting began shortly after midday on Tuesday (US time). “Well that’s not about America, and I will always fight to put America first, not a few individuals who want something for themselves. So too will the internal party chaos. “Maybe the right person for the job of Speaker of the House isn’t someone who has sold shares of themself for more than a decade to get it,” Gaetz said on the floor of the chamber as he nominated Jordan.

US House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy risks becoming the first nominee for speaker in 100 years to fail to win initial support from his own colleagues.

Mr Scalise's office rejected as "false" a suggestion by another Republican on Monday that Mr Scalise was making calls about the speaker's race. Typically, it takes a majority of the House's 435 members, 218 votes, to become the speaker. Mr McCarthy's candidacy for speaker should have been an almost sure thing. The following evening, Mr McCarthy met with Mr Perry in the speaker's office at the Capitol — a Republican aide confirmed on condition of anonymity — to discuss the private session. "Unless something dramatically changes, that's where we're going to be." "It's about whether Republicans will be able to govern."

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has lost the first rounds of voting for House Speaker. It's the first time in a century the leading candidate has ...

House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has lost the first rounds of voting for House Speaker. It's the first time in a century the leading candidate failed to win. VIDEO: Kevin McCarthy fails to secure majority in House Speaker vote

The US House of Representatives adjourns in disarray, failing to pick a new speaker after a group a of hardline Republicans refused to back the party's ...

In the second, it was 203 for Mr McCarthy and 19 for Mr Jordan. In the first-round tally, Mr McCarthy won 203 votes, with 10 for Mr Biggs and nine for other Republicans. It was a chaotic start to the new Congress and pointed to a tangled road ahead with Republicans now in control of the House. Mr Jordan got six votes in the first round, 19 in the second round and 20 in the third. Mr McCarthy had pledged a "battle on the floor" for as long as it took to overcome right-flank - Mr McCarthy is the leading candidate to replace Democrat Nancy Pelosi but is struggling to win the support of a small group on the right of his party

Leader of slim Republican majority has been negotiating to secure backing of hardliners but voting could go to multiple rounds.

The first round of voting delivered a humiliating defeat for Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become House speaker. The first person in a century to lose the vote for speaker in the first round. There will be exuberant scenes but the House speaker vote comes first. “Kevin McCarthy had an opportunity to be speaker of the House. We are about to witness the third round of voting. Scott Perry, the Freedom Caucus chair, reiterated his opposition on Tuesday and accused McCarthy of failing to work in good faith with his group. McCarthy suggested he was comfortable breaking the record for the longest speakership election in history, which “We may have a battle on the floor,” McCarthy told reporters. While a judge in Brazil greenlit a charge against Santos in 2011, he had already gone to the US. After the first three ballots, the House prepared for votes that could stretch into Tuesday evening. McCarthy failed to gain the necessary support after three rounds of voting, becoming the first The House will reconvene tomorrow.

It was the kind of debacle not seen on the House floor in a century, and a stunning lesson on the state of the modern Republican Party.

[Farrah Tomazin](/by/farrah-tomazin-hve4c)is the North America correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via And in the clearest sign of a weakened leader beholden to his right flank, he even agreed to change party rules so it would be easier to oust him as Speaker by lowering the threshold of votes required to do so. and certain budgets,” he said before the voting began shortly after midday on Tuesday (US time). “Well that’s not about America, and I will always fight to put America first, not a few individuals who want something for themselves. So too will the internal party chaos. “Maybe the right person for the job of Speaker of the House isn’t someone who has sold shares of themself for more than a decade to get it,” Gaetz said on the floor of the chamber as he nominated Jordan.

Republican Kevin McCarthy has fallen short in a historic second ballet for speaker in the United States' House of Representatives.

After it became clear that math had defeated him once more, the congressman could be heard muttering to himself, “Numbers . . . my old enemy.”

. . “Numbers . According to a source close to the congressman, failing math brought back “terrible memories” for McCarthy.

Unable to elect Republican leader Kevin McCarthy as the new US House speaker this morning, the Republicans adjourned for the day in disarray as the party ...

But McCarthy has failed to win over a core — and potentially growing — group of right-flank Republicans led by the conservative Freedom Caucus, despite weeks of closed-door meetings and promised changes to the House rules. A core group of conservatives led by the Freedom Caucus and aligned with Donald Trump's MAGA agenda were furious, calling the private meeting a "beat down" by McCarthy allies and remaining steadfast in their opposition to the GOP leader. "We may have a battle on the floor, but the battle is for the conference and the country," McCarthy said earlier at the Capitol. It was a chaotic start to the new Congress and pointed to a tangled road ahead with Republicans now in control of the House. Jordan got six votes in the first round, 19 in the second round and was on track to pick up a similar number in the third. Unable to elect Republican leader Kevin McCarthy as the new US House speaker this morning, the Republicans adjourned for the day in disarray as the party tried to regroup from a long, messy start for the new Congress.

The G.O.P. has gone from being a disciplined party of limited government to a party of anti-government protest to, now, a party of performative verbiage.

has gone from being a ruthless and disciplined party of limited government and trickle-down economics to a party of anti-government protest to, now, a party of performative verbiage—in which the likes of Gaetz and Boebert (and, of course, Trump) are far more interested in boosting their follower count, raising money, and appearing on “The Sean Hannity Show” or Newsmax than they are in governance. The irony is that McCarthy had already prostrated himself before the ultras, offering them a series of rule changes, one of which would allow just five representatives to force a vote on ousting the Speaker. Gaetz, in his speech nominating Jordan, described McCarthy as an inveterate swamp creature who “had sold shares of himself for a decade” to get the job of Speaker. Even as McCarthy told reporters that he had no intention of dropping out, it wasn’t evident what good a delay would do. It is the essence of a revolution, especially one staged for social media and Fox News, that the revolutionaries cannot be bought off by members of the corrupt establishment. [Kevin McCarthy](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/26/what-kevin-mccarthy-will-do-to-gain-power), the California Republican who had been confidently predicting a victory despite steadfast opposition from some of the ultra wingnuts in the G.O.P. He must have thought that it would be more rewarding to spend the next two years going after the F.B.I., the Justice Department, and Hunter Biden than trying to deal with the likes of Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Andy Biggs—the outgoing head of the Freedom Caucus, who stood against McCarthy in the first ballot on Monday. Until Monday, the most embarrassing moment of McCarthy’s career was when, three weeks after [January 6th](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/among-the-insurrectionists), he hightailed it down to Mar-a-Lago to pay homage to the disgraced instigator of a failed autogolpe. Having secured the position he wants as chair of the Judiciary Committee, the Ohioan was evidently content to support McCarthy for Speaker rather than pursue the top office himself. Not in a hundred years had it been such fun to be in the new minority party. “I’ve got my popcorn ready,” she joked on Twitter, where she also posted a picture of herself just outside the Speaker’s lobby. Robin Kelly, the Democratic representative of Illinois’s Second District, had the right idea when she headed into the House chamber early Tuesday afternoon.

Republican rebels defeated party leader Kevin McCarthy three times. Can he still find a way to win?

One suggestion verged on fantasy (five Republicans decide to vote for Mr Jeffries, a Democrat, and deliver him control of the House). "Kevin McCarthy has not made friends with certain segments of the caucus for a while, he's made a lot of enemies," said one Republican lobbyist, who requested anonymity to speak frankly about Tuesday's vote. The other Republican lobbyist, however, believed there was "no path to victory, at all, period." Mr McCarthy entered into negotiations with his detractors - who see him as too mainstream and power hungry - offering concessions to try to win their vote. That allowed a group of hardline conservatives to band together to oppose his nomination. Instead, Mr McCarthy faced a rebellion from within his own ranks and made history for all the wrong reasons.

In the first day of what could prove to be a brutal showdown between about 20 hardliners and the other 202 members of the Republican caucus, Kevin McCarthy ...

Mr McCarthy has spent his adult life in politics, as a congressional staffer then state legislator before being elected to the House in 2006. He noted that Mr McCarthy tried in 2015 to become speaker and failed in the face of conservative opposition, adding: “He’s not gonna have this chance again.” She will remain in office as a representative. The chamber’s top Democrat, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, bested Mr McCarthy in all three votes. In the day’s final tally, Mr Jeffries led McCarthy 212 to 202 votes. The record number of voting rounds to elect a House speaker is 133 over a two-month period in the 1850s.

Woke or not, a different mob was disrupting the proceedings in Washington, D.C. at the nation's Capitol. The same lawmakers who plotted to disrupt Joe Biden's ...

On Friday, he will deliver a speech at the White House about January 6. He will travel to Kentucky on Wednesday to meet with Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell to celebrate the infrastructure bill. The nihilists in the Freedom Caucus are about to munch on McCarthy. It truly is delivering the greatest show on earth, but a freak show all the same. Maybe the GOP will have elected a speaker by then. The storyline writes itself: if the GOP can’t even elect a speaker, how can it expect to help run the country? Promise the moon to the far right? The idea that he can become House speaker is simply California Dreamin’. There is a GOP majority but only on paper. There he declared that under his reign, Florida “will never surrender to the woke mob.” There are plenty of candidates who will vie to replace him. Woke or not, a different mob was disrupting the proceedings in Washington, D.C.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) talks to reporters during a news conference following a GOP caucus meeting at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center Feb.

In the run up to the speaker vote, McCarthy tried everything. That appeared to have the reverse effect of what he and his allies were intending. Trump maintained his power with the base and endorsed scores of candidates in the 2022 midterms. The pair were able to use each other – Trump for normalizing what he did Jan. The ostensible reason for the GOP-led Benghazi investigation was to find out what happened in an attack on an American embassy in Libya, where four people died – not to hurt Clinton. With just a four-seat majority, how can they govern if they're going through all this just to pick a leader? In 2010, Republicans rode the Tea Party wave to win control of the House, but the cost was steep. He seemed willing to do a lot of things to get the job, including burrowing into former President Trump's good graces. Fights over raising the debt ceiling – something that had been routine and protected U.S. How this gets resolved is an open question – either McCarthy somehow wins over the hard-right members who are steadfastly holding out against him or he bows out, clearing the way for someone else. It's an untenable position for the country. Jim Jordan for speaker before a second round of voting Tuesday.

House adjourned until noon today as McCarthy becomes the first nominee for speaker in 100 years to fail to win the first vote. Plus, the truth behind 10 of ...

You drink a lot of water in Antarctica because it is so dry, which means going to the toilet in the middle of the night and getting out of bed to walk through a corridor with the sunlight streaming in at 2am. [heavier, potato-shaped stones can achieve more dramatic results](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jan/04/potato-shaped-stones-are-better-for-skimming-say-experts), which blast the rock into the air. In summer, the strangest thing to get used to is the 24 hours of sun. Intense scrutiny has been applied to his claims about his education and career in business and to elements of his personal story, including his supposed descent from Holocaust survivors and a claim that his mother died as a result of the 9/11 attacks. I thought the weather was going to be brutal all the time – I didn’t think there would be days where I could walk out in a T-shirt and a hoodie. The group, which is acknowledged as a religion by the US government, has seven fundamental tenets, one of which states: “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.” With lawsuits filed in Indiana, Idaho, Texas and Missouri, the Satanic Temple is about to find out whether US courts agree. The Republican opposition to McCarthy has been led by members of the House Freedom Caucus, a hard-right group that has pushed for changes to chamber rules. Now a minority religion is fighting for the right to abortion. He had acknowledged he was unlikely to win on the first ballot, setting the stage for a potentially lengthy delay before new members of the House could be sworn in. Scott Perry, the Freedom Caucus chair, reiterated his opposition yesterday and accused McCarthy of failing to work in good faith with his group. In the first two ballots to decide the next speaker, 19 Republicans opposed McCarthy, leaving him 15 votes short of the 218 needed to win.

The voting for the next Speaker of the US House of Representatives has been adjourned, after Kevin McCarthy failed to secure a majority in three rounds of ...

Trying to avoid the first failed speaker vote in 100 years, McCarthy could afford to lose only four Republicans in the crucial party-line tally that opens each ...

After the adjournment, members left for meetings that many hoped would break the stalemate in time for the House to reconvene today at noon. “I think everybody goes in their corner and talks,” Representative Ken Buck of Colorado, a conservative who voted for McCarthy, told reporters. But when Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, a McCarthy ally, made a motion to adjourn before the fourth vote could be taken, no one put up a fight. “Jeffries, Jeffries, Jeffries!” now-former Speaker Nancy Pelosi exclaimed in the fourth hour of voting. As the third ballot dragged on, a few Republicans seemed on the verge of nodding off, and others grew chippy. Democrats, the party that voters had relegated to the minority, were giddy and celebratory. “Let the show begin!” one exclaimed after the House formally convened. But it also “emboldened the other side,” Representative Pete Sessions of Texas told reporters before the votes. When the chamber adjourned for the day at about 5:30 p.m., McCarthy had already left the floor, his latest bid for speaker thwarted at least momentarily, and perhaps for good. “The world is watching.” He pointed out that the Republican whom all 19 of his detractors had backed on the second ballot, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, didn’t even want the speaker’s job and was supporting him. Shortly before 4 p.m.yesterday, Kevin McCarthy, the man who desperately wanted to be House speaker, had just suffered two brutally public rejections in a row.

Donald Trump has thrown his weight behind Kevin McCarthy's bid to become the next Speaker of the House, in an effort to quell opposition to the California ...

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Republican House leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy appeared no closer Wednesday to securing the 218 votes he needs to be elected speaker.

Donalds said any member of the chamber should be allowed to call for a vote on the House leader. "When it comes to leveraging money to be spent in response, that's something the members would have to put into their calculus as well. Despite Trump's broad support among conservative Republican voters, it was not clear his new endorsement would move the needle for any of the holdouts in Congress. The president needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that 'Sir, you do not have the votes and it's time to withdraw.'" Scott Perry, who is among the most outspoken opponents of McCarthy's speaker bid. I think we can get to an agreement." "And Nancy Pelosi is the one who stripped it. "This was a mainstay rule in our chamber that empowered all the members of Congress," said Donalds, who on Tuesday had publicly shifted his support away from McCarthy. That would make it easier to replace the future House speaker. This left all 434 members of the House technically still members-elect, not official voting representatives. The House adjourned Wednesday night after breaking for several hours earlier in the evening to give Republicans more time to sway 20 of the party's most conservative members that have been blocking McCarthy's run for speaker. The House gaveled back in shortly after 8 p.m.

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy fails again to win the House speakership in dramatic fifth-round voting as the chamber plunges into more political chaos on ...

"This is not a good look," Mr Biden said of the House leadership struggle, speaking to reporters at the White House. The weaker-than-expected performance in the midterm elections contributed to the House leadership crisis by leaving Mr McCarthy dependent upon the support of a small group of hardliners in his party. The vote is also a rebuke of Mr Trump, who urged fellow Republicans ahead of the vote to set aside their differences. The leadership fight has provided a dismal start for the new Republican majority in the House after the party managed to secure a slim majority in the chamber — 222-212 — in the November midterm elections. The House speaker is second in the line of succession to the presidency. The US House of Representatives has adjourned after a second day of voting failed to produce a Speaker.

Weeks after voters gave Republicans narrow control of the House of Representatives, members began their second day of the new Congress locked in a bitter ...

[Farrah Tomazin](/by/farrah-tomazin-hve4c)is the North America correspondent for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via McCarthy also told reporters before returning to the chamber at 8pm that he did not believe further voting rounds would be productive. While some, such as Gaetz and Boebert, couldn’t be swayed, Perry emerged from the meeting describing it as “productive” but did not offer specifics about further concessions made. However, he and his allies claimed that the rebels continued to move the goal posts for their own personal gain. Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert also told the House: “Even having my favourite president call us and tell us we need to knock this off – I think it actually needs to be reversed. He also lost the second and third rounds as some of his detractors coalesced around Ohio Republican Jim Jordan, who said he did not want the job.

Hardline Republicans have repeatedly blocked fellow party member Kevin McCarthy's bid to become speaker of the House, plunging their new majority into turmoil. Kevin McCarthy sitting in the House chamber. One colleague of House Republican leader Kevin ...

That group wants greater control over leadership and more influence over the party's approach to spending and debt. All 212 of the chamber's Democrats voted for their leader, Hakeem Jeffries. Mr Trump remains an influential figure among Republicans and is so far. The internal struggle underscores the challenges the party could face over the next two years, heading into the 2024 presidential election. The weaker-than-expected performance in the midterm elections contributed to the House leadership crisis by leaving Mr McCarthy dependent upon the support of a small group of hardliners in his party. It's the first time since 1923 that the US House of Representatives has failed to elect a speaker on the first round of voting.

Hardline Republicans have repeatedly blocked fellow party member Kevin McCarthy's bid to become speaker of the House, plunging their new majority into ...

That group wants greater control over leadership and more influence over the party's approach to spending and debt. All 212 of the chamber's Democrats voted for their leader, Hakeem Jeffries. Mr Trump remains an influential figure among Republicans and is so far. The internal struggle underscores the challenges the party could face over the next two years, heading into the 2024 presidential election. The weaker-than-expected performance in the midterm elections contributed to the House leadership crisis by leaving Mr McCarthy dependent upon the support of a small group of hardliners in his party. It's the first time since 1923 that the US House of Representatives has failed to elect a speaker on the first round of voting.

The US House of Representatives remains deadlocked for a second day as Kevin McCarthy fails to win votes for the role as Speaker.

As Republicans fight over who will lead the House of Representatives, gamblers don't like Kevin McCarthy's odds.

I believe in the many virtues of vices. I am a staff writer on the vices beat, covering cannabis, gambling and more. At BetOnline, a website based in Panama, McCarthy is still the favorite at -125 odds while Steve Scalise (R-La.) is at +190. In a chaotic, historical event like the speaker nomination, even people in Congress don’t know what the outcome will be. As for 2024 presidential election, Krishnamurty expects big money to be wagered: “Sky’s the limit.” At BetOnline, bettors have wagered about $20,000 on Trump becoming speaker over the last two years. Gambling on politics is illegal in the U.S. Armed with research, Jake is “going all in” on Kevin McCarthy to become the next speaker, even though he lost three times on Tuesday, the first roll call for the 118th Congress. [PredictIt](https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7326/Who-will-be-Speaker-of-the-House-of-Representatives-in-the-next-Congress), one of the only legal platforms in the U.S. And, technically, it’s not a gambling website: the platform is ostensibly an academic research tool like the Iowa Political Exchange. The site, which is operated by Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, has been running since 2014, thanks to a no-action letter provided by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The debacle marked the first time in 100 years that the House majority failed to elect a speaker during its first day in session.