LIVE COVERAGE: McCarthy loses historic second Speakership vote, House set for third ballot - The Hill

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has mislaid the 2nd ballot for Speaker of the House.

He garnered 203 votes, with 19 Republicans voting against him. A campaigner needs 218 votes to go speaker.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) got 212 votes.

The ballot totals remained the aforesaid from the archetypal ballot.

While McCarthy was expected to look stiff absorption from a tiny radical of hardline critics, fewer predicted the benignant of double-digit shellacking that happened connected the House level Tuesday.

The House, which hasn’t needed much than 1 ballot to elite a Speaker successful a century, volition present request to spell to a 3rd Speaker vote.

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