For the second consecutive day, Kevin McCarthy did not succeed, Wednesday, to unite his camp to be appointed president of the room.
by Piotr Smolar (Washington, correspondent )
Kevin McCarthy had a gallows smile in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, January 4. That of an exasperated and weakened man, claiming his supposed due – the Hammer of the speaker – but seeing a quarter of populist extremists on his own camp compromising his ascent. Its public humiliation is a course whose number of stations is unknown. After three unsuccessful votes Tuesday, and three new failures on Wednesday, the blockage remained complete in the Republican ranks, under the gogginal eye of the Democrats, united behind their new leader, Hakeem Jeffries.
Twenty Republican elected officials assimilated to the Maga Movement (Make America Great Again) formed a solid and obstinate block, refusing throughout the day to accept the designation of Kevin McCarthy. The latter feared that his own allies, tired, will push in favor of an alternative candidacy in the event of a new night vote. At 8 p.m., the elected officials of the Grand Old Party therefore snatched a session suspension until Thursday noon. The night promised new arduous palaver. On the one hand, a candidate ready to empty the speaker’s function of his springs provided that she finally returns to him, engaged in a work of wear in the face of the internal opposition. On the other, mutineers in an unprecedented position of strength, imposing their requirements, intoxicated by their own audacity.
Wednesday in the morning, Donald Trump had decided to provide clear support to Kevin McCarthy. In a message on his Truth Social network, the former president called on Republican elected officials to “not transform a great triumph into giant and embarrassing defeat”. Donald Trump thus took a political risk by initiating his credibility, already widely danied by midterms. He is also a victim of this crisis, disowned by his own politicians, who actually register in an older heritage, that of the Tea Party movement. At the time of presenting, on Wednesday, the candidacy of Byron Donalds (Florida) as an alternative speaker, Lauren Boebert (Colorado), one of the most extremist figures of the Maga Movement, declined Donald Trump. He had taken the trouble to call the mutineers to ask them to give up. In return, Lauren Boebert had a public council to send to “[his] favorite president”: he “must say to Kevin McCarthy:” Sir, you do not have the voices, it is time to withdraw “”.
a matter of influence
At the opening of the session at midday, the Republican Mike Gallagher (Wisconsin) had once again proposed the candidacy of Kevin McCarthy. “Yes, it looks messy. But democracy is messy, in its very conception,” he said, welcoming the “energy” he felt in the republican ranks. A tongue of wood quirky in relation to the Party public debacle, which the Fox News chain itself detailed raw.
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