“I will always fight to put the American people first, not a few individuals that want something for themselves,” McCarthy said, flanked by his supporters. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., confirmed he had “promised” those planning to vote against McCarthy that they would lose their committee positions.Įmerging from the meeting, a defiant McCarthy said he was preparing for a protracted floor fight with his opponents and showed no signs of dropping out. McCarthy’s allies, meanwhile, have threatened some of his detractors with having their committee assignments taken away, Biggs said after the meeting. “If you want to drain the swamp, you cannot put the biggest alligator in charge of the exercise.”ĭuring a 90-minute closed-door conference meeting before Tuesday’s vote, McCarthy made a fiery last-minute plea, defending his work as leader and urging his GOP colleagues to rally behind him. McCarthy because time and again his viewpoints, his positions, they shift like sands underneath you,” Gaetz told reporters before Tuesday’s vote. “It is true that we struggle with trust with Mr.
McCarthy's political aspirations are now in serious doubt as that same group of intractable bomb throwers demonstrate that they are willing to go to any length to derail his speaker bid. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, even as Jordan called on Republicans to unite behind McCarthy. But on the second two rounds, the entire group coalesced around Rep. The last time a speaker vote went to multiple ballots was in 1923, when Speaker Frederick Gillett, R-Mass., won re-election on the ninth ballot.ĭuring Tuesday's initial vote, the majority of the conservatives initially backed one of McCarthy’s chief antagonists, former Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. No other House business can occur until a speaker is selected, which means floor votes, committee hearings and other congressional work will grind to a halt if Republicans can’t agree on a new leader. House rules require lawmakers to keep holding votes for speaker until someone secures 218 votes or a simple majority of members voting. Neither McCarthy allies nor his hard-right enemies are backing down. It’s unclear where Republicans go from here. The House adjourned for the day just before 5:30 p.m. No social media site included here has regular news users who are more likely to be Republican or lean Republican.A group of 19 conservatives opposed him in the first two rounds of voting, but by the third, that number grew to 20. This may be related to the relatively young age profile of the news user base of these social media sites. The majority of regular news users of many sites – YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit and LinkedIn – are Democrats or lean Democratic. 35%), while two-thirds of Reddit’s regular news users are men. People who regularly get news on Facebook are more likely to be women than men (63% vs. Both Black and Hispanic adults make up about a quarter of Instagram’s regular news users (22% and 27%, respectively). For example, White adults make up a majority of the regular news users of Facebook and Reddit but fewer than half of those who turn to Instagram for news. There are in some cases drastic demographic differences between the people who turn to each social media site for news.
Demographics of regular social media news consumers On the other hand, YouTube, though widely used, sees a smaller portion of its users turning to the site for news regularly (32%). And 42% of Reddit users get news regularly on the site, though it overall has a very small user base (15% of U.S. adults, but over half of those users get news on the site regularly. Twitter, for example, is used by 25% of U.S. If we consider news users as a portion of a site’s overall user base, some sites stand out as being more “newsy” even if their total audience is relatively small. These lower percentages for news use are in some cases related to the fact that fewer Americans report using them at all, compared with the shares who use Facebook and YouTube.
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