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Received 212. applause from the state of ohio, two. the honourable andy biggs of the state of arizona has received two. no member elect, having received a majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. studio: so hearing confirmation that the speaker has not been elected. let's now speak to david willis, our north america
0 >> now they're going through the scraps, the people that missed their vote. these are the key votes, and matt gaetz is the keyest of them all. let's listen in. >> gaetz. >> present. >> present. >> he voted present. that will not be enough to deliver the speakership to kevin mccarthy. kevin mccarthy needed matt gaetz to vote yes. they needed -- present votes don't hurt. it's at least a nod in the right direction, but they needed three of the holdouts to vote present not two. let's listen in. gosar voted for mccarthy as well as we expected. >> mccarthy. graves of louisiana, m ccarthy. jeffries...
Speaker, while sharing how angry he felt about being accused of using donalds as a prop. >> that member elect wrote and sent out to america that byron donalds is a prop. i have spent a good bit of time with mr. donalds. especially lately. he ain't no prop. and if he were a prop, he wouldn't be sitting where he's sitting. this is the tired old grotesquely racist rhetoric we have seen far too long. >> me thinks the congressman protests too much. never mind he supports efforts that disproportionately hurt black americans. any black guy will do, especially one who is very nice, big in stackture, a...
Really is a continued distraction of the chaos that their conference is going through and the american public fully saying, you know, we made a mistake in sending these people to represent us in congress, they have this majority they don't even know how to handle. it's been three days, they haven't been able to organize the house, we don't have a speaker, none of us have been sworn in, all of us are member-elect. we don't even know if our staff and ourselves will be paid. we can't take cases of our constituents, we have to ask the senators to be able to take care of our constituents. i mean, t...
Speaker mccarthy. and that choice, has not gone unnoticed. cori bush of missouri put it this way, quote, for what it's worth, byron donalds is not an historic candidate for speaker. he's a prop. despite being black, he supports a policy agenda and tendon upholding and perpetuating white supremacy. his name being in the mix is not progress, it's pathetic. today republicans swore up and down that congresswoman bush was wrong. >> yesterday, we could have elected the first black speaker of the united states house of representatives. last night, i sat within feet of mr. donels, as the tweet, of ano...