US Republican Kevin McCarthy is rejected for House speaker in sixth back-to-back vote as deadlock deepens
It was the first time in 100 years that a nominee for House speaker could not take the gavel on the first vote, but McCarthy has vowed to fight to the finish.
The Californian former entrepreneur failed to secure the gavel for a sixth time on Wednesday as his path was barred by an emboldened faction of right-wingers, who have made history by pushing a speakership race past the first ballot for the first time in a century. McCarthy — who has raised millions of dollars to elect right-wing lawmakers — dragged his party back to a 222-212 House majority in last year's midterms after four years in the wilderness.
Republican Lauren Boebert, a firm Colorado conservative, nominated Republican Byron Donalds, R-Fla., the chosen protest candidate of the day — and called for Trump, the conservatives' hero, to tell McCarthy, "Sir, you do not have the votes, and it's time to withdraw.""Close the deal, take the victory," he wrote on his social media site, using all capital letters. "Do not turn a great triumph into a giant & embarrassing defeat.
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