When addressing members of the House, she said, “They want us divided, they want us to fight each other, that much is being made clear by the popcorn and blankets and alcohol that’s coming over there.”
Earlier Wednesday, in a fourth round of voting, Donalds was nominated as an alternative by a group of around 20 Republicans who want someone other than McCarthy.
“Can Kevin McCarthy pull this off or if there are too many votes like this, does he start to see it slip away?” News4JAX Political Analyst Rick Mullaney said. “The conventional wisdom was, is that he was going to have a difficult time but he was going to be speaker. That conventional wisdom is now out the window.”
When asked if average Americans care, Mullaney said, “I don’t think average Americans follow the nuances of the first ballot, the second ballot, third ballot. But they do see this as a self-inflicted wound for the Republican party. They do see that this is a challenge for them governing.”
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