“Who TF is this guy again?”
Far-right evangelical Christian nationalist, 2020 election denier, defended Trump in impeachment hearings, LGBTQ+phobe, supported “conversion therapy,” and an agent of Putin (wittingly or not) for wanting to end aid to Ukraine.
So radical far-right traitor. Or a moderate Republican.
“In a sign of those divisions, the second-place finisher in the nominating vote was the ousted McCarthy, who secured 43 votes despite not being a declared candidate.”
This one won’t survive either.
I don’t like how we’re normalizing these “nominations”.
They’ve never been a thing, like I’m sure they discussed who’d they vote for.
But the media is treating these like primaries so they have something to talk about. Which means Republicans are making a meal out of it knowing just saying you might run gets nationwide headlines and an increase in donations.
We should just ignore them till they elect a speaker. They’ll keep this going forever just for the publicity and donations.
They should give every member a list of every member and have them check off who they would vote for.
I’d bet my right nut none of them would have enough.
That’s approval voting! Just one of the many voting systems that would be better than our first past the post system. I heard the Republicans behind closed doors have been doing an instant runoff/ranked choice system, eliminating the candidate with the lowest votes and then re calculating. I guess they get to use better voting systems when they vote, but not us.
That’s actually a logical way to do it, so yeah, they’ll never try it.
They’ve never been a thing, like I’m sure they discussed who’d they vote for.
That’s not quite the case, in many ways we’re repeating the 2015 Speaker election, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2015_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_election
“Several Republicans expressed interest in becoming speaker. Kevin McCarthy, the House Majority Leader was initially viewed as the favorite, but withdrew his name from consideration on October 8, when the Freedom Caucus refused to support him, and the conference vote was postponed. Immediately afterwards, an effort was made to recruit the widely respected Paul Ryan…”
The problem this time around (or at least one of them) is that Republicans can’t reach a consensus. Official votes basically never failed historically. McCarthy failing over and over again back in January means it’s no longer historic to fail again and again in October.
That being said I agree about the media coverage. I suspect some are just throwing their hat in the ring to get on TV. TV likes covering the chaos.
ELECTION DENIER.
This man cannot be trusted to oversee the transition of power in this country.
Aaaand now he’s Speaker. Lovely.
Waste-of-carbon traitor swine.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mike Johnson was nominated to lead the US House of Representatives on Tuesday, though it was unclear whether he would merely become the latest hopeful to fall victim to party infighting that has paralyzed Congress for more than three weeks.
Republicans’ disarray has left lawmakers unable to respond to the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, or take steps to head off a partial government shutdown that would begin on 18 November without congressional action.
Tom Emmer, the No 3 House Republican, won the nomination earlier in the day, only to withdraw hours later due to opposition from the party’s right flank.
That high threshold and the party’s narrow 221-212 majority means that any candidate can afford to lose just four votes if Democrats remain united in opposition.
“He knows everybody very well, does a great job with bringing people to the floor, talking about our policies, and that’s what we need right now,” said Kevin Hern, who withdrew his own bid to support Johnson.
Johnson bested Byron Donalds, Mark Green, Roger Williams and Chuck Fleischmann in the latest Republican speaker nomination fight.
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