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[ad_1] House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy will try again Friday to muster a majority on the floor to win the race for speaker after falling short in 11 rounds of voting over three days this week. The speaker's election has not exceeded nine rounds since before the Civil War. As McCarthy left the House chamber Thursday night, he was still expressing optimism about his prospects of becoming speaker, though he declined to predict when the voting might go his way. On Friday morning, just before a 10:15 a.m. GOP conference call to present the framework of a deal with some of the GOP holdouts opposing him, McCarthy told CBS News, "We're going to shock you." But after that conference call, two people on the call told CBS News no deal had been reached.  McCarthy made two key concessions to the 21 conservative holdouts on Wednesday. The first would lower the threshold for the motion to vacate the chair to just one House member, meaning that any single member could c...

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy failed to secure enough support Tuesday for his bid to become House speaker during the chamber's first round of voting, the first time in a century that the majority party failed to coalesce behind a speaker and forced more than one round of voting. It was unclear immediately after the first round what next steps Republicans would take. McCarthy has vowed to hold as many rounds as needed to secure the necessary 218 votes. During a tense voice vote, all 212 Democrats rallied unanimously around incoming Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, N.Y. Ten Republicans voted for McCarthy's only declared GOP rival, Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, while nine GOP lawmakers voted for other alternatives. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) talks with reporters after a House Republican caucus meeting on the first day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, January 3, 2023. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters McCarthy's failure to win public support ...