For the second day in a row, the leader of the Republican legislators, Kevin McCarthy, failed again in his attempt to be elected as speaker of the United States House of Representatives after a fifth round of voting.
For the fifth time, Republicans nominated McCarthy as their president as the House descended further into chaos. That came moments after the fourth ballot showed 20 Conservatives still refusing to support him, unchanged from previous ballots.
He did not reach the 218 votes needed to win the deck.
The California Republican, however, vowed to continue fighting despite losing the voting rounds that also caused a stir the day before among Republicans, who make up the new legislative majority.
It was the first time in a hundred years that a candidate for the presidency of the House of Representatives had failed to take office on the first ballot, but McCarthy did not seem fazed. Instead, he vowed to fight to the end encouraged — he said — by former President Donald Trump to end the disorder and unite the Republican Party.
That is the hallmark of the second day of sessions of the new Congress, with no end in sight to the political chaos created by the conservatives of the Republican Party.
