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GOP drops Jim Jordan as nominee after 3rd loss (www.cbsnews.com)

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House GOP will meet again Monday evening to discuss candidates then start voting Tuesday morning on their next nominee.

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[–] snooggums@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

McCarthy got there after 14 votes, but the odds of repeating that situation is basically zero now that it is clear the most extreme Republicans will make any in party nominee fail. McCarthy only got in by giving a nut job a dead man's switch.

They can not appease the zealots and the zealots already showed that they will abuse any leverage they get. They also burned all the bridges with Dems so there will be no bipartisan compromise unless it it is Republicans voting for Jeffries or abstaining, and that won't happen because Republicans punish anyone who compromises.

[–] DrPop@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

McCarthy only got there because of a deal with Dems that he reneged on, the surprised Pikachu when he was booted on it.