California Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy has announced progress during tough internal negotiations within the party, which is discussing the nomination of the representative to the leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives after four days of failed votes that have exposed the fracture within the party between moderates and Trumpists.
McCarthy will try to get again this Friday, after eleven failed votes, something unprecedented in 150 years, the 218 votes that will guarantee him the position amid the rejection of congressmen close at the time to former President Donald Trump, who has tried to mediate unsuccessfully in the talks.
McCarthy’s nomination to this new vote has been confirmed by Congressman also from California Mike Garcia, who has asked the Republican bench for an exercise of national responsibility. «This is not really about Kevin McCarthy: the issues before us are of extraordinary magnitude,» he said.
The congressman has confirmed, reports ‘The Hill’, these developments in a morning conversation with party officials, although he has warned them that an agreement has not yet been reached and that negotiations are still ongoing.
The new voting session began at around 18.00, Spanish peninsular time. It should be recalled that McCarthy has obtained approximately 200 votes in previous rounds, far from the minimum required.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
