#shorts On 1/6/2023, Kevin McCarthy gave a speech after winning the Speakership. He said this GOP would be a check on Biden’s policies. McCarthy said, “My most favorite spot in this building is not in this chamber. It’s in the chamber they met before in statuary hall it’s my favorite place to take people on a tour see it’s where Abraham Lincoln served just a one-term congressman sat in the back I like to go to that spot and I like to stand where he stood I like to do it at night when people aren’t around I like to look over and look at the clock because that’s the same clock and same view that Abraham Lincoln saw. I’ve watched Lincoln serve in the greatest challenge to our constitution the civil war I watched him take peoples who were rivals and put them together. I watched in a time that he did not know if a nation could sustain itself but he dreamed of a future and built a railroad across the nation I want us to all take a moment one time that you were here I want you to stand there I want you to look and I want you to think if America could do it then we can do it now one more time”

On the final ballot, four Republican holdouts – Reps. Bob Good, Va., Eli Crane, Ariz., Matt Rosendale, Mont., and Andy Biggs, Ariz., all switched their votes to ‘present,’ giving McCarthy the majority vote he needed for victory. They joined Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Lauren Boebert of Colorado in switching to ‘present’ votes after days of voting for a candidate other than McCarthy. The final vote tally was 216 for McCarthy, 212 for Democrat Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York and six ‘present’ votes.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/2p0__8IGgJA
McCarthy: My most favorite spot to take people on a tour it’s where Abraham Lincoln served