{"id":55734,"date":"2023-01-06T09:24:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T17:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55734"},"modified":"2023-01-06T10:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:24:41","slug":"mccarthy-picks-up-multiple-holdout-votes-on-12th-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55734","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy picks up multiple holdout votes on 12th ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has picked up multiple GOP holdout votes on the 12th ballot, breaking a stalemate that had lasted for days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Twenty Republicans had voted for someone other than McCarthy for Speaker for five ballots on Thursday and three on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It appears he did not pick up enough support Friday to win the gavel, but it is the first movement in his direction that&#8217;s happened all week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The House reconvened at noon for its fourth day without a Speaker. It is now voting for the 12th time to elect one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has picked&#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-55734","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\/55734","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=55734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55735,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55734\/revisions\/55735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}