In the fourth round of voting for speaker, 20 Republicans backed Rep. Byron Donalds, blocking McCarthy from taking the position.
Before running for office, Donalds had authored a newsletter for former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain.after running as an ally of then-President Donald Trump.
Donalds told voters that he was a "a strong, Trump-supporting, gun-owning, liberty-loving, pro-life, politically incorrect Black man," per the Journal. He was among the 139 House Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021 and had been endorsed by Trump ahead of the 2022 midterms, per theAt the end of the 4th vote, McCarthy had garnered 201 votes compared to Jeffries' 212 votes, while Donalds had won 20.Donalds told "CNN This Morning" during an interview Wednesday morning that "a lot of that remains to be seen" but he left the door open to potentially supporting McCarthy again.
"What I'm going to do right now is vote for who I think is in the best interest of the conference" Donalds said. "Right now, he doesn’t have a pathway to get there. If that reemerges, yeah, I can be there. That’s fine. But what is necessary now is that Republicans come together and find a way to elect a speaker," he added.
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