McCarthy picks up another vote for speaker in 13th round but falls short again
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Kevin McCarthy picked up another vote on Friday in his bid to be the next House speaker, and has picked up 15 new votes so far as he tries to win the gavel.
That switch gave McCarthy 214 votes, and while that was not quite enough for a majority, it showed that members continue to break for the GOP leader a day after he made a series of concessions to members of the House Freedom Caucus. The incoming Democratic leader, Rep.-elect Hakeem Jeffries of New York, received 212 votes. Pete Kasperowicz is a politics editor at Fox News Digital.
In the prior vote held on Friday, McCarthy picked up the votes of 14 members who had either been voting against him or were voting "present."
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