Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has again failed in his bid to become the new speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in a fourth vote blocked by a group of Republicans who have refused to support him.
Thus, the House has voted for the fourth time, giving a total of 201 votes to McCarthy, far from the 218 he needed, while the Democratic representative Hakeem Jeffries has garnered 212 votes, leaving the House blocked again, according to the count reported by the US network CNN The votes of 20 Republicans have opted this time for the representative of Florida, Byron Donalds, while the Republican representative Victoria Spartz has abstained. After a short break, the House resumed the fifth round of voting with the nominations of the candidates.
With very little margin for error, McCarthy, who aspired to make the reduced Republican majority in the House of Representatives count, taking into account the 222 seats the party won in the mid-term elections, has already failed in three previous rounds due to the discomfort of a more radical sector grouped in the Freedom Caucus.
This is evidence of the marked differences between the various factions of the Republican party, which will surely end up in similar situations when it has to negotiate with the Senate, which is in the hands of the Democrats.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
