Rep.-elect Byron Donalds, R-Fla., joined 'America Reports' to respond to his nomination for speaker of the House and why he has stopped voting for Kevin McCarthy.
to react to his speaker nomination from the House Freedom Caucus and why he shifted his vote away from the minority leader after initially supporting him.Republican voters across the country have not been happy with party leadership across the board," Donalds argued after the fourth vote concluded."You saw what happened in the Senate.
McCarthy again failed to secure the necessary 218 votes to be the next House speaker in a fourth and fifth round of voting Wednesday. In new developments, and Indiana Republican Victoria Spartz defected from supporting McCarthy to voting"present." Donalds said he sees a"difficult path" to victory for McCarthy at this point with"a lot of work" to be done, but added:"What I want to make sure is that we elect the speaker of the House, and we go on and accomplish the business that the American people sent us here to do," citing issues including the"porous border" and the economy.
"It's important that we go through this process and get it right so that when we go through the process of actually having the votes and the spending bills out of Washington to better America for the American people, that we are using every tool at our disposal to do that."
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