I don’t like how we’re normalizing these “nominations”.
They’ve never been a thing, like I’m sure they discussed who’d they vote for.
But the media is treating these like primaries so they have something to talk about. Which means Republicans are making a meal out of it knowing just saying you might run gets nationwide headlines and an increase in donations.
We should just ignore them till they elect a speaker. They’ll keep this going forever just for the publicity and donations.
That’s approval voting! Just one of the many voting systems that would be better than our first past the post system. I heard the Republicans behind closed doors have been doing an instant runoff/ranked choice system, eliminating the candidate with the lowest votes and then re calculating. I guess they get to use better voting systems when they vote, but not us.
“Several Republicans expressed interest in becoming speaker. Kevin McCarthy, the House Majority Leader was initially viewed as the favorite, but withdrew his name from consideration on October 8, when the Freedom Caucus refused to support him, and the conference vote was postponed. Immediately afterwards, an effort was made to recruit the widely respected Paul Ryan…”
The problem this time around (or at least one of them) is that Republicans can’t reach a consensus. Official votes basically never failed historically. McCarthy failing over and over again back in January means it’s no longer historic to fail again and again in October.
That being said I agree about the media coverage. I suspect some are just throwing their hat in the ring to get on TV. TV likes covering the chaos.
Far-right evangelical Christian nationalist, 2020 election denier, defended Trump in impeachment hearings, LGBTQ+phobe, supported “conversion therapy,” and an agent of Putin (wittingly or not) for wanting to end aid to Ukraine.
“In a sign of those divisions, the second-place finisher in the nominating vote was the ousted McCarthy, who secured 43 votes despite not being a declared candidate.”
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