While the Republican Party is close to ensuring a majority in the US House of Representatives, the leader Kevin McCarthy won the party’s nomination for the presidency of the Council. McCarthy got the support of 188 votes, in a closed vote on Tuesday for Republican representatives.
To ensure the position, McCarthy must win a majority of the votes of the House of Representatives in its entirety, 218 votes, in the vote scheduled for Jan From the Democratic Party, McCarthy represented the state of California in the House of Representatives since 2007. He officially announced his candidacy for the position of Speaker of Parliament last week, in a letter to Republicans in the House of Representatives that urged them to “stay together and maintain our mission.
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In the Senate, Democrats have succeeded in maintaining a majority.
With the continued counting of votes in some major areas in the midterm elections, it appears that the Republicans are about to obtain a simple majority in the House of Representatives, but they are very far from the “red wave” (the great victory of the Republican Party), which some expected.
On the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2015, but he was forced to withdraw after a tongue over the attack that targeted the American consulate in Libya and killed the American ambassador.
McCarthy had told Fox News that the congressional investigation of Republicans in the 2012 attack on an American diplomatic complex in Libya was aimed at damaging the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
Macarthy became the leader of the minority in the House 2018, during that period, he developed his relationship strongly with former President Donald Trump, who is from the Republican Party. During the riots in the Capitol (Congress headquarters) after Trump’s defeat in the presidential elections against Biden on January 6, 2021, it was reported that McCarthy asked Trump during a phone call Hot telling the demonstrators to return to their homes.
But a few days later, Trump visited at his residence in Florida, and he seemed to improve his relationship with him. McCarthy achieved an easy victory to win the Republican Party nomination to head the House of Representatives over his rival, Congress Member Andy Bigz, a populist right from Arizona that happened Only 31 votes, but McCarthy must now win the votes of his party’s comrades who voted for his opponent in January.
The leadership of Republicans in the Senate may also face obstacles, after the Senator told Florida Rick Scott, his colleagues on time It has a lunch on Tuesday, built by the challenge of the current minority leader, Mitch McConnell. This will be the first opposition faced by McConneel in 15 years, indicating a split within the Republican Party in the wake of disappointing results in the midterm elections.
Democrats continue to control the Senate after obtaining 50 A seat in the midterm elections, that is, more than Republicans. The return elections in Georgia may be granted the Democrats next month an additional seat..
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