Iran Press/ America: The US House of Representatives voted on Wednesday evening to take a brief recess after six rounds of voting failed to select a new Speaker of the House as Republicans continue an internal feud that has upended the process.
The 216-214 vote to adjourn until noon on Thursday came after the House adjourned from around 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern to give McCarthy and his opponents more time to negotiate a path forward during a closed-door meeting.
The 20 Republicans who opposed his candidacy continued to do so Wednesday, throwing their weight behind Representative-elect Byron Donalds from Florida after Jim Jordan, their first choice, repeatedly rejected their endorsements in preference for McCarthy on Tuesday.
Indiana Representative-elect Victoria Spartz chose to vote present three times on Wednesday in what were effectively votes against McCarthy.
The steadfast opposition from McCarthy's detractors came in defiance of an appeal from former President Donald Trump to halt their opposition and back the Republican leader.
Those opposed to McCarthy are largely aligned with Trump's Make America Great Again movement, but have shown that their resistance to the Republican leader goes beyond Trump’s entreaties, at least for now.
The longest election in American history was in 1855, which took 133 rounds over two months from December 1855 to February 1856. 219
