California Rep. Ted Lieu trolled the House GOP by holding a bag of popcorn while Kevin McCarthy lost the first speaker vote on Tuesday.
on Tuesday with 212, meaning every Democrat in the chamber cast their vote for Jeffries. McCarthy trailed with 203. Ten House Republicans cast their votes for Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs for speaker, and another nine voted for a fourth candidate. If every member of the currently 434-person House votes for a candidate, McCarthy can only afford to lose four of those votes if he wants to be the speaker.
Many House Republicans, including several far-right members of the conference, said they were uncomfortable with McCarthy's becoming speaker and vowed to stonewall him unless McCarthy made several serious concessions. The most consequential concession,
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