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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) may not have the votes to become the House Speaker after the Republicans flipped the House in last month’s midterm elections. The slim Republican majority leaves just a 10-seat margin and six of the Representative-elects have said that they will not vote for McCarthy, leaving him two seats short of the 218-vote threshold in the best-case scenario. McCarthy remains confident that he will be able to secure 218 votes. “I’ll never leave,” he said in an interview with CNN. McCarthy is being challenged by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Arizona), who is known t...
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) urged his fellow Republicans to “speak as one voice” in response to a movement inside the GOP against his nomination to become the next Speaker of the House. McCarthy said that, if the party doesn’t vote as a united caucus, Democrats could end up picking the next Speaker, despite Republicans having won more seats in the House in the midterms. “We have to speak as one voice. We will only be successful if we work together, or we’ll lose individually,” he said in an interview aired on Newsmax. “And if we don’t do this right, the Democrats can ta...
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) received enough votes on Tuesday to win the GOP’s nomination for House speaker should the party take control of the lower chamber once the final votes are in from last week’s midterm elections. McCarthy beat challenger, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Arizona) who votes further right than McCarthy, for the designation in a 188-31 vote. While McCarthy won on Tuesday with just a simple majority, he will need at least 218 votes in January to be confirmed as the next speaker. He also won the support of far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) and cen...
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Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California) condemned Rep. Andy Biggs(R-Arizona) over the weekend following a video tweeted by Biggs regarding illegal immigration on the Yuma, Arizona, border. “You tried to overthrow your government. What do you think they are calling you, traitor?” Swalwell wrote. The Democratic representative was referring to Biggs’ request of Trump for a pardonwhich most took to mean that there is possible evidence tying him to the efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Biggs’ video was taken early Sunday morning. “This is Yuma, Arizona, at around 4:30 in the morning today,” the capt...
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A recent video from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) highlighted the growing concern that white supremacist and other sympathizers in the House of Representatives coordinated with the rioters who stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6. A protest organizer told CNN said they coordinated with three Republican members of the House. Since the riots there have also been a growing number of internal affairs investigations into Capitol Police officers’ actions during the riots. Ocasio-Cortez chillingly said in her video message that “many, many members of the House were nearly assassinated....
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