Republicans voted by a narrow margin on Wednesday to nominate Scalise to replace McCarthy, but several lawmakers said after the closed-door meeting that they would not vote for him on the House floor. The number of hold-outs grew over the next 24 hours, making it clear that Scalise was nowhere close to securing the 217 votes he needed to secure the gavel.

  • @[email protected]
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    291 year ago

    Guess we dodged the bullet of having an overt white supremacist as the Speaker of the House.

    We’ll see what fresh horror the GOP tries to unleash on us next, I suppose.

    • @Supervisor194
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      201 year ago

      fresh horror

      Not sure I’d call Gym “fresh,” but he is horrible.

    • FuglyDuck
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      31 year ago

      A speakership shared between Boebert and MTG;

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        Lmao “shared”

        They’re very definitely not friends these days.

        So sure, put them in a cage match with the speaker’s gavel in the middle of the arena. People would watch that, and it’d be a damn sight more useful than what the House has done recently - definitely since Monday; arguably since January 3, 2023.

        • FuglyDuck
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          31 year ago

          lets just say that McConnel might be able to pay attention for more than five minutes…