Three Strikes and You're Out!

Kevin McCarthy is publicly humiliated by the rightwing Freedom Caucus by being the first House majority leader to lose the floor vote for speaker in 100 years.

For years McCarthy abased himself before Donald Trump in the hope of becoming House Speaker. And then on his big day, the Republican caucus dissolved into chaos when the Freedom Caucus blocked McCarthy on three consecutive speaker floor votes. Ultra rightwing Congressman Matt Gaetz said on the House floor, "Maybe the right person for the job of speaker of the House isn't someone who has sold shares of themself for more than a decade to get it."