{"id":1797681,"date":"2023-01-06T14:04:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1797681"},"modified":"2023-01-06T14:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T19:04:56","slug":"mccarthy-makes-headway-flipping-14-votes-on-12th-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-makes-headway-flipping-14-votes-on-12th-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy Makes Headway, Flipping 14 Votes On 12th Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fmccarthy-makes-headway-flipping-14-votes-on-12th-ballot%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=1797681&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--><p>  <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Delivers Vow to&#8217;make Progress&#8217; in the speaker battle<\/p>\n<p>    U.S. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), reacts to the cheers from his supporters Republican After casting his vote, he is applauded by colleagues. Speaker The House During a vote in House Chamber On the first day, the 118th Congress The U.S. Capitol In Washington, U.S., January 3, 2023. REUTERS\/Evelyn Hockstein   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/philip-caldwell\/\" title=\"Posts by Philip Caldwell\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Philip Caldwell<\/a> \u2022 January 6, 2023 1:53 p.m.  <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R. Calif.) on Friday He fulfilled his vow to make great progress in his bid for becoming House Speaker, flipping 14 Republican During the 12th ballot vote of this week, there were still holdouts for his side.<\/p>\n<p>While McCarthy was unable to win a majority vote in the election. HouseHe also reduced the number Republicans In the anti-McCarthy alliance, from 21 to 7<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Key players among the holdouts need to be convinced, Reps. Chip Roy (R., Texas) and Paul Gosar (R., Ariz.) to cast their vote his way. Friday&#8217;s McCarthy received more votes this week than usual for the first time in his life. House Democrats&#8217; leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.).<\/p>\n<p>After three days of deadlocked votes, McCarthy&#8217;s vote margins improved after he <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/mccarthy-vows-progress-ahead-of-12th-speaker-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told reporters<\/a> Friday Morning that &#8220;we&#8217;re going to make progress, we&#8217;re going to shock you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Democrats Unite in Support JeffriesMcCarthy can only afford to lose four Republican You can still vote and be elected speaker. After McCarthy must flip three votes to cut the opposition to seven members in order to win the threshold for victory.<\/p>\n<p>Flipping those holdouts could be a tall order for McCarthy\u2014among the remaining opposition are the speaker hopeful&#8217;s most ardent opponents, like Reps. Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.) ?. Andy Biggs (R., Ariz.), who have vowed not to support McCarthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) on Friday delivered on his vow to make progress in his bid to become House speaker, flipping 14 Republican holdouts to his side during the 12th ballot vote of the week.<br \/>\nThe post McCarthy Makes Headway, Flipping 14 Votes on 12th Ballot appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":1797684,"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":[544],"tags":[12959,7386,4092,13713,13714,3663,4030],"class_list":["post-1797681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-12th","tag-ballot","tag-beacon","tag-flipping","tag-headway","tag-mccarthy","tag-votes"],"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\/1797681","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\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1797684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}