WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Kevin McCarthy failed to win the House speakership on a 14th ballot late Friday, falling one vote short as tensions boiled over in a chaotic scene on the House floor.
In the raucous 14th, even after two key Republican holdouts voted present to lower the tally McCarthy would need, it was not enough. He strode to the back of the chamber to confront Matt Gaetz, sitting with Lauren Boebert and other holdouts. Fingers were pointed, words exchanged and violence apparently just averted. At one point, Republican Mike Rogers of Alabama started to charge toward Gatez before Richard Hudson physically pulled him back.
“Stay civil!” someone shouted.
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It all comes down to one man, one vote: Matt Gaetz. A man charged with taking minors across the Florida border for a private party where lashings of coke and rum-tum-buggr was consumed. A Trump Ultra of low moral fibre and no shadow.
After McCarthy moved into the Speaker’s office last weekend before officially earning the title, Gaetz flipped, sending a letter to the Architect of the Capitol: “What is the basis in law, House rule, or precedent to allow someone who has placed second in three successive speaker elections to occupy the Speaker of the House office?”
*Radio news reports the vote is over and the new speaker can finally sit down in the big chair.
In the raucous 14th, even after two key Republican holdouts voted present to lower the tally McCarthy would need, it was not enough. He strode to the back of the chamber to confront Matt Gaetz, sitting with Lauren Boebert and other holdouts. Fingers were pointed, words exchanged and violence apparently just averted. At one point, Republican Mike Rogers of Alabama started to charge toward Gatez before Richard Hudson physically pulled him back.
“Stay civil!” someone shouted.
@APNews.com
It all comes down to one man, one vote: Matt Gaetz. A man charged with taking minors across the Florida border for a private party where lashings of coke and rum-tum-buggr was consumed. A Trump Ultra of low moral fibre and no shadow.
After McCarthy moved into the Speaker’s office last weekend before officially earning the title, Gaetz flipped, sending a letter to the Architect of the Capitol: “What is the basis in law, House rule, or precedent to allow someone who has placed second in three successive speaker elections to occupy the Speaker of the House office?”
*Radio news reports the vote is over and the new speaker can finally sit down in the big chair.
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