Could Trump become Speaker? Your questions answered
Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, has not won a majority of votes to become the next Speaker of the House. On Thursday, a vote was cast not for Mr McCarthy, nor for any other member of Congress, but for Donald Trump, the former US president. It has never before happened that anyone aside from a sitting member of the. House was voted in as Speaker and Mr Trump was nowhere near the. 218 votes he would need to win.
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