Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has made significant progress in his bid to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy flipped 15 colleagues to support him in dramatic votes for House speaker, making extraordinary gains on the fourth day and the 12th and 13th ballots of a historic standoff that was testing American democracy. Rep. Kevin McCarthy made significant progress Friday in his bid to become speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, flipping 15 GOP holdout votes in 13 total rounds of voting.
Rep. Andy Biggs and Rep.-Elect Eli Crane, both Arizona Republicans, remained defiant in their opposition to McCarthy, R-Calif. There will be a 14th round of voting later tonight, where McCarthy likely will need 218 votes to win the speaker's gavel.On the fourth day of the speaker's vote, 14 of the 20 House Republicans who voted against McCarthy on Thursday voted in his favor. Thirteen flipped in the 12th round, with Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., changing his vote in the 13th round.
Biggs and Crane voted in round 13 for Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who also had been a candidate for speaker when voting began Jan 3. Jordan is backing McCarthy.
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Analysis | The anti-McCarthy bloc in the House has long been anti-McCarthyAnalysis: On average, the anti-McCarthy faction agreed with him on votes only three-quarters of the time in the last congress. Most of his opponents, 16 of them, have served previously and held positions further to the right than the rest of their caucus.
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