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McCarthy On Track To Lose Eighth Speaker Ballot

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Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) appears on track to lose an eighth successive ballot to decide the next Speaker of the House of Representatives.

  • Key change in the dynamic of the vote is Republican rebel Lauren Boebert (R-CO) nominating Rep Kevin Hern (R-OK) of the Ways and Means Committee, and incoming chair of the Republican Study Committee, as a unity candidate.
  • Hern said ahead of the vote: “If I hear my name, it’s something I’ll have to think and pray about before deciding if it’s a job I’ll run for.”
  • Max Cohen at Punchbowl reports that Hern said yesterday: “As it's been from day one, it's a personal issue. They’ve been very explicit that they feel like they have been lied to, and it's hard to ever recover from that. And so I think this is just gonna be a matter of attrition.”

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