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With a likely robust, maybe chaotic, republican field they have to respond to. they ll haval to respond to republicans and their investigations and spending time coalescing around each other furthering a contrast between their party and the republican party as we saw them do ahead of the 2022 midterms. alexi, briefly. a preview of today. starts at noon. any idea how long it will go? long as it takes. kevin mccarthy is not willing to throw in the towel but continue to see rebels continue to dig in and mccarthy will do the same. three votes down. see how many more to go. alexi mackanin, thank you so much. and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early for us on this wednesday morning. a jam-packed morning joe starts right now. freedom caucus, matt gaetz and others will not take the win when they have it, they re proving to the country ....
Leader kevin mccarthy s career long quest for the gavel. they argued that mccarthy was too much of an establishment figure to bring the real change they want to see to the house. shortly after the first vote failed, the house tried to elect a speaker for the second time and then a third time with both subsequent votes ending in the same result. mccarthy was coming up short. lawmakers then approved a motion to adjourn till noon today to give them time. mccarthy and his team seemed to be hunkering down for a long night after the three failed votes with nbc news spotting that cart of pizzas being rolled into the speaker s office that he prematurely moved into. the embattled republican briefly spoke to reporters following the unprecedented rejection from members of his own party saying that he had no plans to back down once congress reconvenes today. are there any circumstances under which you would consider ....
Republican congressman jim jordan of ohio gave an impassioned speech nominating mccarthy again. immediately after that republican congressman matt gaetz of florida nominated jordan. jordan, however, has previously said he doesn t want to be speaker. he d rather be chair of the house judiciary committee. the second ballot resulted with democrat hakeem jeffries securing 212 vote, all democrats staying together in a bloc for jeffries who is expected to be minority leader. mccarthy this time around ballot number two maintained 203 votes but all the other votes, all 19 went to jordan. interesting. that led right to a third ballot with incoming republican majority leader steve scalise nominating mccarthy. gop congressman chip roy of texas stood up soon after nominating jordan. this third ballot then moved in the wrong direction for mccarthy. jeffries still had 212 then mccarthy with 202, jordan with ....
Pulling out of the race? no. there is not one. there is not one. have you talked to any of the 20 members since these votes? we ve had discussions. look, look, it doesn t work negotiating with you, none of you have a vote so we ll all let s take a closer look at the three separate votes in which he failed to get to 218 to win a simple majority and therefore become the speaker of the house. the first vote began at 12:33 p.m. yesterday when republican congresswoman elise stefanik of new york delivered a nominating speech in favor of mccarthy. mccarthy could only afford to lose four votes. he lost 19. the first ballot tally was 212 for democratic congressman hakeem jeffries, 203 votes for mccarthy and then 10 votes for andy biggs and then 9 votes for other candidates. after that the house moved to a second ballot for the first time in a century. ....
That these right wing rebels are ending up being to mccarthy and the larger republican party and we saw it play out in realtime yesterday with the speaker fight and we ll see it continue as they try to govern through the 118th congress. certainly a tough day for my kevin as donald trump referred to mccarthy. democrats had a blast. nerve her so much fun watching the republicans well, let s just say they re in disarray. take us inside the democratic side? right. my colleague was told having so much fun and admitted he shouldn t be having that much fun. others across the floor would break out in these chants of hakeem jeffries name over and over. it didn t stop from the beginning and it shows unity that democrats have going into, of course, a house minority. though they control the senate and the white house, they re heading into a 2024 election ....