Anonymous ID: b0d79f Jan. 3, 2023, 8:13 p.m. No.18070599   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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Photo taken October 27, 2020

 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) with Kash Patel, who was the top White House counterterrorism official, on Oct. 27 in Washington.

 

wsj.com/articles/white-house-national-security-council-aide-is-named-to-top-pentagon-post-11605037916

Anonymous ID: b0d79f Jan. 3, 2023, 8:41 p.m. No.18070739   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0806

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AP

McCarthy vows to stay in speaker’s race, with Trump backing

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said late Tuesday there’s no scenario in which he’ll drop his bid to become House speaker despite failing to win multiple rounds of voting, a historic defeat that brought the first day of the new Congress to an abrupt, messy end.

 

McCarthy promised to fight to the finish — encouraged, he said, by a phone call from Donald Trump — despite a highly uncertain path ahead amid opposition from the chamber’s most conservative members. Needing 218 votes in the full House, McCarthy got just 203 votes in two rounds — less even than Democrat Hakeem Jeffries in the GOP-controlled chamber — and fared even worse with in round three, losing 20 Republican colleagues.

 

“Today, is that the day I wanted to have? No,” McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol after a series of late-night closed-door meetings.

 

McCarthy said Trump wants him to stay in the race and told him to bring an end to the House Republican disarray and pull the party together.

 

The former president “wants to see the Republicans united to be able to accomplish the exact things we said we’d do,” McCarthy said.

 

Asked if he would drop out, McCarthy said, “It’s not going to happen.”

 

It was a tumultuous start to the new Congress and pointed to difficulties ahead with Republicans now in control of the House.

 

Tensions flared among the new House majority, and all other business came to a halt. Lawmakers’ families waited around, as what’s normally a festive day descended into chaos, with kids playing in the aisles or squirming in parents’ arms.

 

Without a speaker, the House cannot fully form — swearing in its members, naming its committee chairmen, engaging in floor proceedings and launching investigations of the Biden administration.

 

The House agreed to return at noon Wednesday to try again.

 

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https://apnews.com/article/biden-politics-us-republican-party-united-states-house-of-representatives-kevin-mccarthy-8b1d6cdf0d75dfc95b195c301f9ae344