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🗓️ 4 January 2023
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0:29.7 | The 118th Congress now under Republican control voted yesterday for the next speaker of |
0:36.1 | the house and no one won. |
0:40.4 | Kevin McCarthy was supposed to win. McCarthy has been in house leadership for over a dozen |
0:45.2 | years. He's actually already started moving his files and furniture into the speaker's |
0:50.9 | suite, but McCarthy did not get the 218 votes necessary to secure the speakership, which |
0:58.4 | brought the vote to a second ballot. Now McCarthy still didn't have the votes, brought it to |
1:05.1 | a third ballot, still didn't have the votes, and then the house adjourned for the night. |
1:10.7 | The whole episode was somewhat embarrassing, certainly for McCarthy. It was even historic, |
1:16.7 | it was the first time in 100 years that a speaker election went to multiple ballots. But |
1:21.5 | the one thing that it was not was surprising. People are acting shocked right now, especially |
1:28.4 | the establishment Republicans. They are horrified. They are clutching their pearls. I'm not |
1:34.1 | sure why, because this is the exact same thing that happened last time Republicans had |
1:42.0 | a chance to elect a speaker back in 2015. It's the exact same thing by the exact same |
1:50.5 | people to the exact same guy. In 2015, when John Banner stepped down as speaker, Kevin |
1:58.2 | McCarthy was his presumptive successor until some members of the house freedom caucus refused |
2:04.3 | to go along with it. And the freedom caucus had enough votes to block him. That election |
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