{"id":1740398,"date":"2022-11-15T21:18:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T02:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740398"},"modified":"2022-11-15T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T02:33:00","slug":"republicans-retake-house-of-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-retake-house-of-representatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Retake House of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-retake-house-of-representatives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740398&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_1280px-Capitol_at_Dusk_2-768x432-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>                Republicans have taken back the house after gaining their 218th seat, <a href=\"https:\/\/results.decisiondeskhq.com\/national\/2022-house\">Decision Desk HQ projects<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the 117th Congress, Democrats held a narrow majority in the chamber, 220 to the Republicans&#8217; 212, but it appears he GOP has flipped that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The result comes after a week of slowly watching the numbers rise on either side, with Republicans taking an early lead and staying ahead. The predicted GOP &#8220;red wave&#8221; across the nation didn&#8217;t materialize as expected, much to the upset of Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Kevin McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-kevin-mccarthy-wins-nomination-for-house-speaker\">won the nomination<\/a> for house speaker with 188 votes, beating his opponent Andy Biggs, who won only 31 votes.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy&#8217;s GOP house majority will help to ensure that he has the votes needed to replace Nancy Pelosi in January 2023, although such a narrow majority still doesn&#8217;t make that a certainty.\u00a0Some Republicans have publically stated that they would not support McCarthy, though others cautioned that the party had to be unified behind a single nominee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to elect Kevin McCarthy,&#8221; Georgia Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-marjorie-taylor-greene-wins-re-election\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>\u00a0told reporters Monday. &#8220;I can\u2019t support a challenge that will allow the Democrats to \u2014 to elect their own speaker by pulling some of ours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having the majority of seats in the house will make it easier for Republicans to force an investigation into the Biden administration&#8217;s actions in the last two years, as well as\u00a0into <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/watch-biden-wishes-republicans-lots-of-luck-with-their-attempts-to-investigate-hunter-biden\">allegations<\/a>\u00a0of Hunter Biden influence peddling while his father was in the White House as VP under Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy has also pledged to eliminate remote voting with the Republicans&#8217; House majority.\u00a0&#8220;We will immediately reopen the Capitol and end the Democrat proxy voting and remote work schemes that have inflicted untold damage to this institution,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have taken back the house after gaining their 218th seat, Decision Desk HQ projects.\u00a0In the 117th Congress, Democrats held a narrow majority in the chamber, 220 to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1740401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}