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The GOP majority in the House of Representatives made some really embarrassing history Tuesday, being the first Congress in 100 years to fail to elect a Speaker and humiliating Republican leader Kevin McCarthy in the process. Totally humiliating Kevin McCarthy, who really miscalculated what was going on in his conference. Not only did he lose on the first ballot, and the second ballot, he lost worse on the third ballot—the opposition grew from 19 members to 20 voting against him.
Clearly, McCarthy’s strategy of making huge concessions to the Freedom Caucus in order to get their support, and then yelling at them in the conference meeting for not supporting him, didn’t work. He knew walking onto the House floor Tuesday knowing he did not have the votes to win, but somehow hoping that somehow maybe he could find them. He miscalculated. But by all accounts, it’s the strategy he decided to stick with going into the second day of balloting, starting at noon on Wednesday.
It’s not just exposing what a failure McCarthy is, it’s tearing apart his already fractious conference, with QAnon Queen Marjorie Taylor Greene lashing out at her former friends.
