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January 4, 2023 Infighting Is Funny, Republicans

In the fifth vote in two days, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., again failed to secure enough support to win the U.S. House speakership, setting the chamber up for a sixth round of votes and plunging the party into further chaos.

A core group of 20 GOP holdouts voted for Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, a sophomore Republican lawmaker who on Tuesday had publicly shifted his support away from McCarthy.

Another Republican, Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana, voted “present,” after supporting McCarthy on the first three ballots. That chipped away another vote, bringing McCarthy’s total to 201 after getting as many as 203 in the first two roll call votes.

SCALISE says there will be at least one more round of voting today, GOP is discussing a motion to adjourn after that but no decisions have been made

— Aidan Quigley (@QuigleyAidan) January 4, 2023

NEW: Democratic Whip Katherine Clark reminding Democrats to stay on the House floor in anticipation of a sixth roll call vote for House Speaker.

Reminder: if any Dems are absent, the required threshold to be elected is lowered, making it easier to give McCarthy win. pic.twitter.com/F8V6mmWAjP

— Cami Mondeaux (@cami_mondeaux) January 4, 2023

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