- Speaker debacle reveals Donald Trump is losing juice (aaronrupar.substack.com)
- ‘Moderate’ Republican Jason Stephens snatches state of Ohio’s House Speaker position in surprise upset (ohiocapitaljournal.com)
- House adjourns after Kevin McCarthy falls short in three rounds of voting for speaker (theguardian.com)
- Matt Gaetz, Key Roadblock to McCarthy Becoming House Speaker, Calls on Jim Jordan to Pursue the Job (mediaite.com)
- McCarthy Gains Ground in Speaker Bid but Still Falls Short (nytimes.com)Just What Do McCarthy’s Antagonists Want, and Why Won’t They Budge? (nytimes.com)Debacle Over House Speaker Election May Raise National Security Concerns (huffpost.com)‘You Want this Job Too Much… It Makes You Weak!’ Joe Scarborough Demands Kevin McCarthy Tell Holdouts ‘Go to Hell!’ (mediaite.com)House Speaker Fight Shows Election Deniers Who Tried To Overthrow Democracy Still Control GOP (motherjones.com)The terrible outcome that looks likely if the fringe runs Congress (cnn.com)The Chaotic House That SCOTUS Built (slate.com)Matt Gaetz Threatens to Resign Over McCarthy’s Speaker Fight (msn.com)Gaetz Declares, ‘Trump Is Wrong’ to Back McCarthy: ‘HR Wasn’t Always His Strong Suit’ (mediaite.com)House Adjourns After Day 3 With No Resolution on Speaker; Hakeem Jeffries Wins Plurality for 11th Time in a Row (washingtonpost.com)Kevin McCarthy Grasps for Deal With Fascist Faction as House Speaker Fight Enters Fourth Day (nytimes.com)
House Adjourns for a Few Hours After 13 Failed Votes
- House Adjourns for a 2nd Day Without a Speaker (nytimes.com)House without a speaker as McCarthy fails to secure majority in six rounds of voting; (theguardian.com)The McCarthy mess; ure trumpism (vanityfair.com)Members of GOP's 'Taliban 19' face intraparty pushback (msnbc.com)
- McCarthy Proposes Gutting Office of Congressional Ethics in Bid for Speaker (time.com)
- Kevin McCarthy makes fresh concessions to try to woo hard-right Republicans in speaker bid (washingtonpost.com)McCarthy offering rule change that would let any Freedom Caucus member call a vote to fire him at any time (rawstory.com)House begins third day without speaker (theguardian.com)‘Nobody Is in Charge’: A Ragged G.O.P. Stumbles Through the Wilderness (nytimes.com)Gaetz, a McCarthy Foe, Accused Him of Squatting in the Speaker’s Office (nytimes.com)Key McCarthy Ally Appears Ready to Throw in the Towel: ‘More Than Four’ Who Will ‘Never Vote’ for Him (mediaite.com)Jonah Goldberg Loses It on Anti-McCarthy Holdouts, Says They’re Smelling ‘Their Own Farts’ and Getting ‘High’ (mediaite.com)Brian Kilmeade Calls McCarthy Holdouts ‘Insurrectionists,’ Then Scrambles to Take it Back: ‘Probably Shouldn’t Use That Word’ (mediaite.com)
- Kevin McCarthy faces open GOP revolt as House fails to elect speaker (washingtonpost.com)Republicans' Shambolic Fight Over Speaker Enters Its Second Day (static01.nyt.com)House sh**show has a message for America: GOP can't govern and doesn't want to (salon.com)A Far-Right Gang Of House Members Will Hold Power Over Their Caucus — With A Megaphone (huffpost.com)How Gerrymandering Helped Republicans Win the House (democracydocket.com)Matt Gaetz Demands Probe into ‘Squatter’ Kevin McCarthy for ‘Occupying’ Speaker’s Office: ‘How Long Will He Remain?’ (mediaite.com)Trump doubles down on support for Kevin McCarthy as House speaker (nbcnews.com)Joe Scarborough Cannot Contain His Laughter at House Speaker Chaos: ‘Not About Small Government, Its About NO Government’ (mediaite.com)George Santos wrongly announced he was sworn in. He wasn’t the only one. (washingtonpost.com)‘David Duke Without the Baggage’: Joy Reid Mocks Possible Scalise Speakership by Citing Past Comments, Says GOP ‘Bench Is Rotten’ (mediaite.com)Alex Wagner Asks AOC If Matt Gaetz and Paul Gosar Would Help ‘Get Hakeem Jeffries Elected Speaker of the House’ (mediaite.com)A reminder about that time Kevin McCarthy (deanobeidallah.substack.com)Fox & Friends Floored By GOP Chaos Surrounding McCarthy Bid for House Speaker: ‘A Disaster for the Republicans’ (mediaite.com)
- Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker bid threatened by Republican rebels (bbc.com)A Far-Right Gang Of House Members Will Hold Power Over Their Caucus — With A Megaphone (huffpost.com)
