LOL, the R from Wisconsin categorizing this cluster as a triumph for democracy!
Nah, you’ll get a lot more grift by not defying MAGA, if money is the objective they definitively will not vote for a dem.
What’s your point? The Clerk was ensuring that there was quorum present which is a well-used tactic to get extra time on the floor to politick before making a motion.
Secondly, this could be a way for McCarthy to get the exact number of Reps present so he know how many votes he needs, in this case 176 and not the 218 if all members are present.
I don’t think they would forget what they would see as a terrible betrayal, and the primary opponents would made sure they remember it.
enemies abroad, eh. bit of a tip of the hand there.
They wouldn’t vote for Jeffries, but if you get enough of them, they’d just have to “forget” to turn up for a vote and suddenly 212 votes becomes the majority. Their constitutents wouldn’t forgive a vote for a Democrat but they likely wouldn’t remember who was or wasn’t in the room when it happened (to borrow a phrase).
General mockery of Stefanik, really, in the context of McCarthy’s failure to count his own supporters in advance.
I don’t think it is failure to count. I think, quite the opposite, is that he did the count before the opening and still doesn’t have the numbers.
A new name! Byron Donalds! He got one vote in the 1st ballot, IIRC
oooooh, new candidate. byron donald (sp).
Did he vote for himself?
Yeah, but it doesn’t always work out. This last midterm, virtually every Repub candidate that tRump backed to primary an incumbent who dared to displease him lost the general. The constituents might remember that, too.
Do we know who is missing? Are there more Ds than Rs who are there?
Brian
LOL, trying to use this as a Republicans aren’t racist ploy.
So a conservative Floridian? We need to nominate someone towards the center, not go more right.
Is the FC plan to nominate a different rando on each ballot?
Jim Jordan must have told them to knock that shit off, I guess.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy told CNN that he is not worried if his opposition grows on the fourth ballot.
Someone has clearly not studied how leadership elections work. Has anyone ever lost votes then won?
i’m thinking that mccarthy loses more votes this time.
I thought he was the one who joined the 19 Never Kevin’s on the 3rd ballot to make 20.
Looks like they’re voting now. In class so I have to have the sound off. 