Several Republicans opposed to electing Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House decided to back another candidate.
Kevin Hern spoke during a House Small Business Committee in Washington. In this file photo, a pool of people are seen.
He received seven votes on the tenth ballot after getting three in the ninth round of voting.
He has voted for McCarthy on every ballot and doesn't want to be speaker.
Boebert said in her nomination speech that he was a Republican who could unify the conference and that he was not a member of the House Freedom Caucus.
After being reelected to his deep-red district with a majority of the vote in November, Hern is about to enter his third full term.
Although he is not a face of the hard right like many of those who voted for him for speaker, like Boebert and Gaetz, his voting record is very conservative and his House bids have earned Trump's support.
4%. According to FiveThirtyEight, that's how many times Hern has voted in line with President Joe Biden on bills, which is the 10th lowest number of members of congress.
It was the first time since the start of the Civil War that the vote for speaker of the house took place without a winner. Despite giving in to several of the group's key demands, McCarthy was not able to win back a single vote among his opposition. It's not clear how long the voting will last and how far lawmakers will go to reach a compromise.
He is technically eligible for the job because he got one vote for the speaker.
McCarthy agrees to some concessions in his quest to become speaker, but they may not be enough.
It was the first time in 163 years that McCarthy failed to win the speaker's race.
The Republican is challenging McCarthy for speaker.
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