Our latest book is titled Divided We Stand: The 2020 Elections and American Politics. Among other things, it discusses state and congressional elections. It also discusses the state of the parties. The state of the GOP is not good.
It took 15 ballots for Kevin McCarthy to overcome hard-right resistance and become speaker.
This is what it came to before #KevinMcCarthy finally secured enough votes to become Speaker. We don't normally get to see all this on TV, and once McCarthy reinstates the C-SPAN camera rules, we won't again. Alabama's Mike Rogers had to be restrained from attacking Matt Gaetz. https://t.co/MIlfclu76l
— Doug Sovern (@SovernNation) January 7, 2023
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, holds her smart phone with former US President Donald Trump on the line, as Rep. Matt Rosendale, a Republican from Montana, waves it off during a meeting of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber on Friday.#SpeakerVote pic.twitter.com/VWvOGfXd9Q
— Al Drago (@Al_Drago) January 7, 2023
ICYMI — REUTERS snapped this pic of Santos voting for McCarthy as his other hand conspicuously forms the 👌🏻 sign, known by many to mean “white power” and frequently flashed by white supremacist groups.
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) January 6, 2023
He also has hired an aide who is a former Bannon producer. pic.twitter.com/P70VBeueGK
When you can’t tell whether Democrats or Republicans wrote the talking points. https://t.co/IXHx6ffz25
— Francis Wilkinson (@fdwilkinson) January 7, 2023
