A group of Republicans standing firm in opposing Rep. McCarthy’s bid for House speaker has coalesced around an alternative: Rep. Byron Donalds, a conservative two-term lawmaker from Florida.
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., confer with each other on the floor of the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building, on Wednesday.Curtis Bunn
Donalds, 44, has found himself thrust into the national spotlight after receiving 20 votes for speaker in each of the three roll calls Wednesday, compared to McCarthy’s 201 votes each time. That 20-vote faction has prevented McCarthy from reaching a majority of 218 votes, since he can afford to lose no more than four votes from his caucus to be elected speaker.
Donalds is considered a “rising star” in the party because of his conservative values and aggressive expressions of them. Donalds’ campaign website describes him as “everything the fake news media says doesn’t exist: a Trump supporting, liberty loving, pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment black man.”which positions itself as the conservative counter to the left-wing lawmakers elected in 2018 known as “The Squad.
Donalds, who was raised by a single mother in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, is a Donald Trump supporter and staunch anti-abortion and gun ownership advocate. While growing up, Donalds was
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