House Speaker vote: McCarthy picks up multiple holdout votes on 12th ballot - The Hill

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Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has picked up aggregate GOP holdout votes connected the 12th ballot, breaking a stalemate that had lasted for days.

Twenty Republicans had voted for idiosyncratic different than McCarthy for Speaker for 5 ballots connected Thursday and 3 connected Wednesday.

It appears helium did not prime up capable enactment Friday to triumph the gavel, but it is the archetypal question successful his absorption that’s happened each week.

The House reconvened astatine noon for its 4th time without a Speaker. It is present voting for the 12th clip to elite one.

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