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Byron Donalds is now a candidate for speaker

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

So the House is entering its third week without a speaker.

0:04.0

Nearly a dozen Republicans are vying to earn the support of their conference to

0:08.0

Wheel that gavel.

0:09.8

They're searching for a new nominee after Jim Jordan became the latest to exit the race.

0:16.0

So the big one over the weekend who said he's, what is vying, I guess, for lack of a better term to be speakers

0:23.4

Byron Donald's now Byron Donald's interesting so he is uh from Florida he's also

0:29.6

black he's super conservative yep and he initially voted not to appoint Kevin McCarthy

0:38.0

speaker of the house. So he's a he's a second term member and he's part of that freedom caucus. Now he did vote to save Kevin McCarthy so that's a giant red flag. However, when it came time to initially appoint him, he did not vote for him, so he at least checks a couple boxes for me that other people were not checking.

1:00.0

However, I maintain Casey, I think it's too fractured at this point to get any existing member of the House of Representatives to be the speaker.

1:07.6

It's either going to be from outside of the House, or I still think the more likely ending for this is a group of these scumbag Republicans

1:15.2

are going to team up with Hakeem Jeffries and appoint someone.

1:18.8

Well, here's, let's go through the name, names of all the people.

1:22.6

Tom Emmer, Kevin Hearn, Jack Bergam, Austin Scott, Byron Donald, Mike Johnson, Pete Sessions,

1:30.1

Don Muser, Gary Palmer, Rob Kendall, Casey Daniels, Kevin MacDamer.

1:35.0

Gary Palmer wasn't he Palmer from Emerson Lake and Palmer?

1:38.0

So at this point, is today your day to say that you want to be Speaker of the House?

1:43.2

I'll take tomorrow.

1:44.3

Hey Kevin, I think there's an opening on Friday.

1:46.2

You want to put your name down for it?

1:48.0

Yeah, sure.

1:48.6

So look, the Republicans are a train wreck.

1:51.0

And not just because of this, the Republicans are a train wreck because they just because of this the Republicans are a train wreck because

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