WASHINGTON: The deeply-riven US House of Representatives was engulfed in crisis for a second day running on Wednesday (Jan 4) as fresh rounds of voting failed to produce a winner in the race for speaker. Conservative hardliners have been blocking establishment pick Kevin McCarthy in a humiliating stri
WASHINGTON: The deeply-riven US House of Representatives was engulfed in crisis for a second day running on Wednesday as fresh rounds of voting failed to produce a winner in the race for speaker.
McCarthy - who has raised millions of dollars to elect right-wing lawmakers - dragged his party back to a 222-212 House majority in last year's midterms after four years in the wilderness. He told reporters in Congress he planned to stay in the race and had spoken to his biggest VIP backer, Donald Trump, who wasThe former president duly called Wednesday for an end to the McCarthy blockade, warning the renegade Republicans not to"turn a great triumph into a giant and embarrassing defeat."
No House business can take place without a speaker, meaning the chamber has to continue voting until someone wins a majority. Should he decide it's too steep a hill to climb, the two parties are likely to start casting around for a"unity" candidate - a consensus Republican who commits to being as bipartisan as possible.The Republicans will first look to their own ranks though, where two McCarthy loyalists - incoming House majority leader Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan, a darling of the right - look like the most viable alternatives.
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