Kevin McCarthy failed to be appointed by his party on Tuesday, after three ballot towers. A first for a century.
by Piotr Smolar (Washington, correspondent)
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Among the 434 elected officials who were to take office on Tuesday, the Republicans have 222 votes, against 212 to the Democrats. This very short majority therefore the right at the mercy of extremists elected officials, making fun of any discipline of voting, determined to overthrow the table on which traditional policy is made.
grouped together in the Freedom Caucus faction, this thirty representatives come from the Maga generation (“Make America Great Again”, the slogan of ex-president Donald Trump), but do not necessarily follow the instructions of Trump, who had called to vote McCarthy, without any enthusiasm. Among the dominant figures of this generation, Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia) is one of the only ones to support this classic candidacy. “If only the base understood that 19 Republicans voted against McCarthy are currently playing in Russian roulette with our harsh republican majority,” she lamented Tuesday on Twitter.
The distrust of “Never Kevin”
In the wake of the mid -term elections in early November 2022, several elected officials – the “Never Kevin” – had expressed their distrust of this candidate considered as a apparatchik without real conservative flame. In their sense, politics is a pyre made of tweets and direct on the Fox News or Newsmax channels, used to roast democratic enemies as the too soft elements of their own camp. For these inquisitors, the fact of not having a real alternative to McCarthy little matters. “If you want to purge the marsh, you cannot place the biggest alligator in the conduct of this exercise,” said Matt Gaetz (Florida), one of these “Never Kevin”.
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