The mood was tense, at least on the Republican side, as lawmakers rose from their seats, in a lengthy first round of in-person voting.
WASHINGTON — Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was dealt a historic defeat in first-round voting Tuesday to become House speaker, sending the new Congress into opening-day tumult as conservative colleagues opposed his leadership.Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, who got six votes on the first ballot, rose to agree that McCarthy should get the post. But Rep Matt Gaetz of Florida followed with a vigorous re-endorsement of Joran. underscoring the jumble within the party.
Democrats were joyous as they cast their own historic votes for their leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the first Black person to lead a major American political party. McCarthy emerged from a contentious closed-door meeting with fellow House Republicans unable to win over detractors and lacking the support needed to become speaker. He vowed to fight to the finish — even if it takes multiple tries in a public spectacle that would underscore divisions in his party and weaken its leadership in the first days of the new Congress.
The group said McCarthy refused the group's last-ditch offer for rules changes in a meeting late Monday at the Capitol. “A Latino is nominating in this chamber a Black man for our leader for the the first time in American history,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, the third-ranking Democrat, in nominating his colleague.
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