Can the Dems retain the House Speaker??!

The GOP seems determined to continue to shoot itself in both feet and kneecaps while it continues to field such maladroit nincompoops as Kevin McCarthy for Speaker. Here he is just today failing to get his extreme right party brethren on board to support his bid for Speaker, because, it seems, he is not fascist enough like them.

Quote:

The final hurdle to Republican Kevin McCarthy’s years-long quest to secure the speaker’s gavel grew even more formidable on Monday as a sizable group of House colleagues from his own party said they were not yet ready to support him. The nine Republican rebels made the announcement after the California congressman made a series of concessions on Sunday to try to shore up the support of conservative hardliners ahead of Republicans assuming control of the US lower chamber on Tuesday. McCarthy can afford to lose only four votes from his party’s slender majority if he is to win the election for speaker that will be among the first orders of business for the new Congress.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...rdliners-house


Here's my questions: How is the Representatives Speaker position selected? Is it a whole-of-House vote? Has it been assumed that the majority party will get their choice simply because they are the majority and they will all vote for the one candidate?

Assuming it is indeed a whole-of-House vote, what happens if the Dems field and all vote for their own candidate, and the Republicans split their votes between two internal rivals? (Pro-Kevin and anti-Kevin??) Surely if the Dem candidate has the majority of House votes, s/he is elected Speaker!

Could this happen?? :eek::D

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