McCarthy Fails 3 Votes for Speaker of the House; Bitter Battle Erupts Among GOPers

McCarthy Fails 3 Votes for Speaker of the House; Bitter Battle Erupts Among GOPers
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in Washington on Dec. 23, 2022. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Mark Tapscott
Madalina Vasiliu
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WASHINGTON—The new Republican majority in the U.S. House rejected House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become House Speaker on Jan. 3 but then failed to settle on an alternative candidate and adjourned until noon on Jan. 4.

In the first vote of a tumultuous first day of the 118th Congress, McCarthy, the California Republican who led the party to regain the majority in the November 2022 mid-term election, fell 15 votes short of the 218 he needed to become Speaker of the House.
Mark Tapscott is an award-winning senior Congressional correspondent for The Epoch Times. He covers Congress, national politics, and policy. Mr. Tapscott previously worked for Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Montgomery Journal, and Daily Caller News Foundation.
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