What’s the Secret Strategy of the House Speaker Battle?
3 Jan 2023
For the first time in a century, the vote for Speaker of the House could drag into multiple ballots. Congressman Kevin McCarthy came on this show and expressed a strategy boiled down to this: If not me, who? Steve Scalise? Elise Stefanik?
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy needs a majority of members present to vote for him.
If he fails to get that level of support, it would be the first time since 1923 that the House would need multiple ballots in a speaker election.
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) January 3, 2023
Kevin McCarthy has already moved into the Speaker’s suite, despite being opposed by many Republicans
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 3, 2023
The answer could be other Republicans, or in a real shocker, the Democrat minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, who even some Republicans are willing to support.
McCarthy claims Matt Gaetz told him he wouldn’t care if speaker stalemate ends with Democrat leading the House https://t.co/P61nmNIrBi
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) January 3, 2023
What do you think the messy vote for speakership means for Republicans going forward as a roadblock to Biden’s disastrous policies? Tweet us your take @ClayAndBuck — or, if you’re a 24/7 VIP, send us an email.
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