Former US President donald trump has called the republican congressmen to support kevin mccarthy What new speaker of the House of Representatives, after three failed votes that evidenced the internal division within the now majority party.
“Don’t turn a great victory into a giant and shameful defeat. It’s time to celebrate. You deserve it,” Trump posted on his Truth Social network account, after having held “conversations” over the last few hours about this controversy.
The former president is confident that McCarthy will do a “good job” once he is elected to the third highest-ranking political post in the United States, although it is precisely some Trump supporters who have complicated something that, under normal circumstances It would have been a formality.
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This Thursday’s message contrasts with the previous ambiguity of Trump, who in statements to NBC News chose to remain silent when the chaos in the Lower House was already more than evident. “Everyone calls me because they want my support, but we’ll see what happens,” he told the television network.
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The official candidate, who aspired to assert the new Republican majority in the US House of Representatives, has already failed in three votes due to the discontent of a more radical sector united in the Freedom Caucus.
Some twenty Republicans have supported an alternative candidate, Jim Jordan, which has left McCarthy with 202 votes, ten below even the Democrat Hakeem Jeffries. 218 votes are needed to be elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives.