The tally displays the diploma to which election deniers dominate the Home Republican caucus, accounting for greater than three-quarters of the 222-person convention. A big majority of McCarthy’s 202 votes — 157 — got here from election deniers. However with Republicans holding solely a slender majority, any Republican looking for to guide the Home should garner near-unanimous help from the caucus’s deniers to be able to succeed.
McCarthy (R-Calif.) himself embraced false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. So did Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who acquired votes from the 20 defectors on the third poll.
The 2 Republicans voting in opposition to McCarthy who usually are not deniers are Chip Roy of Texas, the one returning member within the group who didn’t oppose the certification of President Biden’s victory; and Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, a newcomer to the Home.
The 14 returning election deniers who voted in opposition to McCarthy are: Andrew S. Clyde of Georgia; Paul A. Gosar and Andy Biggs of Arizona; Matt Gaetz and Byron Donalds of Florida; Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Mary E. Miller (Unwell.), Andy Harris (Md.), Matthew M. Rosendale (Mont.), Dan Bishop (N.C.), Scott Perry (Pa.), Ralph Norman (S.C.), Michael Cloud (Tex.) and Bob Good (Va.).
The 4 newcomers who voted in opposition to McCarthy are Eli Crane (Ariz.), Anna Paulina Luna (Fla.), Andy Ogles (Tenn.) and Keith Self (Tex.).
All through the midterm election cycle, The Publish recognized candidates as election deniers in the event that they questioned Biden’s 2020 victory, opposed the counting of his electoral faculty votes, expressed help for a partisan post-election poll evaluate, signed onto a lawsuit looking for to overturn the 2020 end result, or attended or expressed help for the rally on the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Voters within the six main battlegrounds the place Trump tried to reverse his defeat in 2020 rejected election-denying candidates looking for to manage their states’ election programs, a sign that Individuals had grown weary of the previous president’s unfounded claims of widespread fraud.
However the Home, the place 175 election deniers received their races, was a unique story. The determine represents a large enhance over the earlier Congress, when 139 Home Republicans voted in opposition to the electoral faculty depend following the assault on the U.S. Capitol.
