US House speaker fight,Trump wins the vote and members laugh.
Donald Trump's name erupted in laughter after winning more than 430 votes on Thursday as a chaotic effort to elect a new speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives failed in a historic fifth day and 12th round of voting. raised.
The battle for control of the House is now the longest in 164 years, as the various factions of the Republican Party have failed to unite behind Republican candidate Kevin McCarthy. Florida Republican Matt Gates voted for Trump. He sees the former president as "a symbolic but clear sign of a broad division over the future of the Republican Party."
Domestic worker Cheryl Johnson read out the votes for the 11th round in a video shared by American journalist Aaron Luper. A chorus of laughter followed, as they said, "Florida's honorable Donald J. Trump has received his vote."
With Republicans winning a majority of his nine seats in the House in November, it should have been easy for McCarthy to become chairman.
But then internal divisions and strife surfaced, and McCarthy made several concessions despite significant concessions to hardline members widely expected to pose real challenges to his tenure and governance. I lost the vote.
The California Republican, on the other hand, said, "I seem to enjoy writing history." He apparently enjoyed those moments without worry. Giving hope to the Democrats who control the Senate by a narrow margin, thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris' pivotal vote. So far, at least 20 Republicans have held out.
The House will reunite on Friday, but no speakership contest has lasted more than nine rounds since the Civil War, when Republican Massachusetts Frederick Gillette won his 1923 election by nine votes. The previous multiple-vote ballot was in his 1859 and required 44 votes. More than 10 votes were cast in just 6 elections. Members of the House of Representatives must immediately vote for the Speaker and can do nothing else.