Some of the holdouts say that is a deliberate choice, to avoid what has been a brutal fight that has taken a political toll on many of the group’s top leaders.
“We’re wiser,” said Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a former chair of the Republican House Conference.
Since a small group of party hardliners engineered the Oct. 3 ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the caucus has been through round after round of votes in which 14 of its members have failed to garner the 217 votes needed to win the gavel and lead the group, which holds a narrow 221-212 majority.
Women make up 15% of the voting members of the House Republican party - compared to the 43% of House Democrats - and none have put themselves forward as speaker.
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Be fair. She didn’t say “very wise.” Just that they’re relatively wiser than other republicans.
Arguable, sure, but it’s a very low bar.
Really low bar.
Yeah if the party of misogyny can’t get its act together when voting for a man, you’d have to be delusional to think they’d elect a woman.
Delusional, not wiser. There’s no way Republicans would put a woman up for Speaker.
McMorris Rodgers is a piece of shit and an idiot. She may be wiser but the bar was already sitting on the ground for her.
I think Lauren Boebert should stand for the Speaker, lord knows that girl knows how to bang a gavel.
“Lauren, that’s not how you bang a gavel” Also, 100% on track for her decorum, and totally not getting her expelled.
“We vote against our own sex/gender. Watch us strategize by letting the men take charge!”
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