McCarthy vows to press on with House speakership bid with Trump support
Ex-president publicly urges Republicans to vote for Kevin McCarthy after Republican House leader lost three votes
House Republicans will open the second day of the new Congress much like the first – with leader Kevin McCarthy trying to become House speaker despite losing in multiple rounds of voting that threw the new GOP majority into chaos.
It was the first time in 100 years that a nominee for House speaker could not take the gavel on the first vote, but McCarthy appeared undeterred. Instead, he vowed to fight to the finish, encouraged, he said, by Donald Trump to end the disarray and pull the Republican party together.
