#shorts On 1/6/2023, Kevin McCarthy said, “my door will be open I’d like you to come by I want you to see as you walk down the hall a large portrait of Lincoln I want you to go into that conference room. I want you to see another portrait my members know of this it’s of Washington crossing the Delaware. You all know the story it happened on Christmas 1776. There was no iphone to take a picture people wonder when it was painted. It wasn’t painted by someone who was there. It was painted in 1850 and 1851. He was an immigrant who lived in America Emmanuelins you know why he painted it because he knew America was more than a country. America was an idea he went home to Germany and he wanted Germany to have a revolution based upon the values and freedoms that we defend every day.”

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
Washington crossing the Delaware Painting. McCarthy Speech After Winning Speakership