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    -21 year ago

    This simply isn’t true. The minority party, GOP or Dem have been known to support speakers of the opposite party when it suited their purposes.

      • @[email protected]
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        -11 year ago

        Nah, the downvotes are weird partisanship. The rest of the world knows that these parties sometimes cut deals on speakers.

        https://time.com/6320202/house-democrats-refused-save-kevin-mccarthy/

        On Tuesday, Democrats voted unanimously alongside Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida and seven other GOP members to remove McCarthy as Speaker. Despite talk over the weekend that some Democrats might cut a deal with McCarthy to save him, the Speaker ultimately refused to offer members of the opposition party any concessions, leaving Democrats united against him. In the narrowly divided House, only a handful of Republicans needed to join Democrats to create the majority needed to win the vote.