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What an extraordinary night. A Republican politician restricts the other. The potential speaker faces the man who just blocked him.
A former boss calls into the room. All of this was captured by cameras inside the House of Representatives.
Last minute deals, angry faces, rebel rallies, all taken over like the old masters of the modern era.
It was all revealed when politicians gathered for the fourteenth vote in four days to elect a president – the second after the presidency of the United States.
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy thought he was in the bag this time.
He made too many concessions to a small group of ultra-conservative Republicans who held him back for days.
He promised them positions of great influence on the committee, and promised to change the rules governing his stability. He hoped they would get their votes.
His concessions withdrew most of these Trumpian filibusters.
But then shock. Matt Gaetz, the controversial maverick conservative, wasn’t playing ball.
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McCarthy lost. He walked up to meet Mr. Gates. They looked angry. Then another congressman approached from behind. Republican Mike Rogers, with a few words of his own for Mr. Gates before being tied up by someone else.
Cameras captured it all.
This is the Republican Party today. And on January 6th it turns out, the anniversary of the uprising sponsored by some of these.
A few yards away, another politician—conspiracy theorist, QAnon supporter and congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, controversial even within her own party—was clutching her phone, the call active. On display, the initials DT.
Donald Trump – he’s still pulling the strings, or he’s going all out for it. His team says he was on the phone with several of the politicians in the room, including Mr. Gates.
His divisive politics have empowered this fringe group of ultra-conservatives, who are now jamming on their own.
For four days, McCarthy gave in to their fringe demands. They can make the decision because the Republican majority is so small.
It seemed like it was all over for Mr. McCarthy, for the whole week at least.
Image: Kevin McCarthy smiles after winning the 15th vote in the House of Representatives. Pic: AP
But the man who voted “no” moments earlier suddenly changed his mind.
Mr. Gates and Mr. McCarthy shook hands. Closing deals, a democratic settlement? Or the desperate Republican infighting that will put McCarthy as president in a straitjacket, the least powerful speaker in years, incapable of governing, beholden to the far right.
It is said that Kevin McCarthy always wanted this job.
His fans say he is a true conservative. Not hardcore but strong and fair. His critics say he has always put power and politics before democracy and the American people.
The truth, perhaps, is that it would be what those who made him cross the line wanted. He is their man now.
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