Day Two of the House GOP's Speaker Deadlock

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 4 January 2023

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Kevin McCarthy still can't get to 218, yet his Republican challengers haven't gained much ground either, after nominating Florida Rep. Byron Donalds. Does the GOP have an alternate candidate that it can rally around to end the stalemate, and could that person come from outside Congress? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Three, two, one.
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0:15.5	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:24.5	The Republican House is still stuck in stalemate as Kevin McCarthy loses a fourth vote for
0:30.3	Speaker with a fifth vote ongoing.
0:33.5	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:36.5	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel and editorial board member,
0:41.9	Maneu Kweberua.
0:43.2	Well, it's deja vu all over again as Yogi Barra might say in the Republican House with
0:48.8	the majority of the GOP caucus continuing to vote for Kevin McCarthy to be their speaker
0:53.9	in a rump faction standing in the way as a reminder, the vote on the first ballot yesterday
0:59.2	was 212 for Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, 203 for Kevin McCarthy and 19 Republicans naming
1:07.1	somebody else by the end of yesterday that number had grown from 19 to 20 with the defection
1:13.4	of Florida Congressman Byron Donnells joining the non McCarthy faction.
1:18.0	Here's how he explained himself on Fox News this morning.
1:21.0	It signals the people that would vote for Kevin on ballot one.
1:24.7	I was possible on a ballot two.
1:26.2	I made that vote.
1:27.5	At that point, we were basically deadlocked and it was pretty clear that he didn't have
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