{"id":54882,"date":"2022-11-29T10:08:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T18:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54882"},"modified":"2022-11-30T10:09:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T18:09:23","slug":"mccarthy-democrats-could-pick-speaker-if-republicans-play-games-on-house-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54882","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy: Democrats could pick Speaker if Republicans \u2018play games\u2019 on House floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader\u00a0Kevin McCarthy\u00a0(R-Calif.) warned his skeptics in the House Republican Conference against opposing him for Speaker on the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to speak as one voice. We will only be successful if we work together, or we\u2019ll lose individually. This is very fragile \u2014 that we are the only stopgap for this Biden administration,\u201d McCarthy\u00a0said on Newsmax\u00a0Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if we don\u2019t do this right, the Democrats can take the majority. If we play games on the floor, the Democrats can end up picking who the Speaker is,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader\u00a0Kevin McCarthy\u00a0(R-Calif.) warned his&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54883,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54882\/revisions\/54883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}