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1:06Now PlayingKevin McCarthy fails to win speakership after three rounds of voting | USA TODAY
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1:06Now PlayingGOP leader Kevin McCarthy failed to win 218 votes to become speaker of the House after three rounds of voting.
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In the first two ballots McCarthy, of California, secured only 203 votes – well short of the 218 needed votes – after 19 other Republicans chose other members.
By the third ballot the GOP leader began to lose support after Rep. Byron Donalds, of Florida, changed his choice. He said McCarthy "doesn't have the votes" to win.
All three times McCarthy received fewer votes than House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, of New York, the first African American to be chosen as a leader of a major party in Congress.
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