On Thursday, Kevin McCarthy failed for the seventh time to win enough votes from his party to serve as House speaker, The Associated Press reports. Since voting began, the Snopes newsroom has tackled these online rumors. 👇
A chief order of business for the 118th U.S. Congress in early January 2023 was to elect a new speaker of the House. With Republicans securing a slim majority in that chamber after the midterm elections, the party was poised to have enough votes to elect one of its own as House speaker, at least in theory.
But a small group of far-right detractors within the GOP set the stage for a historic moment, repeatedly blocking the bid of California Rep. Kevin McCarthy for the speaker job unless he complied with their demands. As of this writing, he'd lost six separate votes by the chamber over two days.
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