Ep. 1640 - The Neverending Speaker Fight

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🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://utm.io/ueSEj Republicans continue to quarrel over whether to allow Kevin McCarthy to become speaker of the House; Democrats consider a gamble on making Hakeem Jeffries speaker; and Joe Biden takes advantage of the chaos to campaign and visit the border. - - - DailyWire+: Become a DailyWire+ member to access the entire content catalog of movies, shows, documentaries, and more: https://bit.ly/3rfvUvB Shop the new Jeremy’s hair, face, and body wash collection and kick woke out of his bathroom: https://bit.ly/3rfvUvB Get your Ben Shapiro merch here: https://bit.ly/3TAu2cw - - - Today’s Sponsors: ExpressVPN - Get 3 Months FREE of ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/ben Helix Sleep - Get up to $350 OFF + 2 FREE pillows with all mattress orders: https://helixsleep.com/BEN Legacybox - Shop Legacybox with my exclusive discount: https://www.legacybox.com/shapiro Policygenius - Get your free life insurance quote & see how much you could save: http://policygenius.com/SHAPIRO - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3cXUn53 Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QtuibJ Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TTirqd Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPyBiB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Republicans continue to quarrel over whether to allow Kevin McCarthy to become a speaker of the House.
0:04.4	Democrats consider a gamble on making Hakeem Jeffries speaker, and Joe Biden takes advantage of the chaos to campaign and visit the border.
0:10.4	I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
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0:23.1	slash Ben.
0:24.2	Well, we enter day three of the ongoing speakership saga.
0:27.9	According to the Wall Street, journal negotiations were set to continue between Kevin
0:30.8	McCarthy and his detractors on Thursday.
0:33.0	With some lawmakers expressing hope, they could see a resolution to the speaker fight soon,
0:36.6	both sides saying that it could take days at this point. The discussions between McCarthy's allies and his
0:41.0	opponents heated up after McCarthy did not reach the majority in three series of votes for the
0:44.8	Speaker Post on Tuesday nor another three on Wednesdays. We've already had six votes on who
0:48.9	should be the Speaker of the House. McCarthy has come up short each and every time. It seems like
0:52.4	there is a solid and not particularly growing chorus of people who don't want
0:57.7	McCarthy to be speaker or who are at least using this vote as leverage in order to exact
1:02.5	concessions.
1:03.1	And this is two separate groups.
1:04.5	It's about 20 Republicans right now who aren't supporting McCarthy.
1:07.6	Probably half of them just don't want McCarthy to be speaker.
1:09.8	And another half of them want to exact concessions from McCarthy that would be more conservative in orientation. And there is a very large difference between these two groups. One of them has a strategy. One of them does not. The group that wants to exact concessions from McCarthy, this is just traditional typical politics, right? You have leverage over McCarthy, and now you can get out of him an additional
1:27.8	couple of seats on the Appropriations Committee, or you can get a commitment from him on not bringing
1:32.7	to the floor omnibus packages. This stuff is good and fine and useful. And this is the sort of stuff
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