201-194
no now it is tied.
Wait Pelosi up by 1.
Fuck this is crazy
This is fucked up….suddenly they are calling everyone who didn't respond the 1st time, and they are ALL voting Pelosi.
The lady looked like she winked at someone too.
Something is up here…..
yeah, it's bullshit. Pelosi just won I think.
What "deals' Were cut during the breaks, is what I want to know.
Suddenly AOC, Swallwell and others just appear and ALL voted Pelosi to give her the win?
Fucking ridiculous. Woman is80years old. Has NO BUSINESS as our Speaker of the House! Fuck…….RETIRE ALREADY .
Dirty swamp wins again.
Sorry Y'all I was trying to keep posting the running total going….McCarthy was in the lead the whole time so I really thought he'd win, but in the end they pulled a ton of Pelosi votes out….
Sorry
Same thing I am wondering….
The lady reading the votes winked at someone (looked like it to me)….something happened with that last round of votes….
Ok, so I forgot a foreign country … transmitting from Mongolia! I kid you not. Listen.
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It seems Demorats are immune to COVID.
Seems only R's have been getting it.
Doesn't anyone find that strange?
House Democrats rallied Sunday to elect Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as Speaker in the 117th Congress, overcoming opposition from a handful of restive moderates urging new leadership to grant Pelosi her fourth term at the top of the chamber.
The 216-209 vote was more dramatic than anyone would have guessed just two months ago, when Democrats went into the elections predicting big gains to pad their House majority in 2021. Instead they lost at least 13 seats, trimming their numbers to a mere 222 seats — the smallest House majority in decades — and complicating Pelosi's effort to keep the Speaker's gavel for another two-year term.
She’s vowed it will be her last.
A total of five Democrats declined to support Pelosi on the chamber floor, urging a changing of the guard after 18 years under Pelosi's reign — a sharp decline from the 15 defections she encountered in 2019.
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) voted for Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a military veteran; Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.) opted for Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). And three other Democrats — Reps. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), Mikie Sherrill (N.J.) and Abigail Spanberger (Va.) — voted “present,” allowing them to log their disapproval with the long-time leader while simultaneously lowering her threshold for victory.
"I've been pretty vocal about the need for more Midwestern leaders, people who represent areas like where I'm from,” Slotkin said shortly before the vote. “It's a commitment that I made in March of 2018 before I was elected."
Yet the detractors fell short of blocking Pelosi, who ran unopposed, and there was a clear sense that the process was orchestrated in such a way to allow a certain number of moderate Democrats in tough districts to register their opposition to the liberal leader, for messaging purposes back home, while keeping their ranks small enough to ensure she kept the gavel.
Paving her path, several Democrats who had opposed Pelosi in 2019 had a change of heart this year and backed her, including Reps. Jim Cooper (Tenn.), Kurt Schrader (Ore.), Ron Kind (Wis.), Jason Crow (Colo.) and Kathleen Rice (N.Y.).
Heading into the vote, there were also open questions surrounding the intentions of several incoming progressive lawmakers — including Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) — who had knocked off Democratic incumbents in the primaries and had declined to forecast how they'd vote in the Speakers' race.
In the end, however, those newcomers declined to go after Pelosi, citing a need for Democrats to unite heading into the new Congress.
"Our country needs stability right now," Bowman said coming off of the chamber floor after the vote. "And it's really important for the Democratic Party to come together and figure out not just how to govern for the 117th, but going forward for the country."
The timing of the vote might also have played to Pelosi's advantage. It came just two days before a pair of special Senate elections in Georgia will decide which party controls the upper chamber next year, and three days before Congress will vote to affirm Joe Biden's Electoral College victory in the face of opposition from conservative allies of President Trump, who are fighting to overturn the election results in several battleground states.
Against that backdrop, Pelosi’s allies had warned her critics against creating a dramatic scene on the chamber floor, which would have highlighted the party’s divisions just as they’re trying to unite behind Biden and their candidates in Georgia.
Opening Day of a new Congress is usually filled with pomp and celebration, but because of the coronavirus pandemic things were much more subdued in the Capitol. There were not as many children and grandchildren wandering around the complex, and lawmakers sported masks, opted for elbow bumps over handshakes and hugs, and voted in multiple shifts to avoid overcrowding on the House floor.
COVID-19 hung over the Speaker’s vote as well, as Pelosi and her allies fretted about the possibility that a new, last-minute outbreak could cause a flurry of Democratic absences and jeopardize her quest to secure the gavel. In fact, the margins were so tight that some Democrats who had recently tested positive for COVID traveled to Washington anyway to cast their vote for Pelosi.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/532444-pelosi-wins-speakership-for-fourth-time-in-dramatic-vote
of course not. All lies. My entire family had COVID (or the flu; who knows; son tested positive and we had symptoms; some unusual) but it certainly didn't knock anyone on their asses. All theatre.
yeah I remember that…..How could that be if they didn't have a vaccine yet? That made no sense to me.
But then again, it's Washington DC.
But I have a question about this Speaker vote:
There were some missing (muh covid) plus the one that just passed away, (who I assume will need to be replaced? Does he get replaced with the Dem he faced? )
They are supposed to have 218 votes and Nancy had 217. Do the ones missing get to still vote?
Kind of like the absentee voting we have for general election?
And if they do, could that possibly change anything? (I am guessing no, but just asking these questions as I am learning…..50 y/o and I never paid attention to politics until now…)