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McCarthy loses the vote for speaker in a marathon session

McCarthy loses the vote for speaker in a marathon session: McCarthy had vowed to engage in a “fight on the floor” for as long as necessary in order to win over Republican members of the party’s right-wing who were refusing to vote for him. After becoming the first party’s candidate for House speaker in 100 years to lose the gavel with his group in the majority, it was unclear how the troubled GOP leader would recover.

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