‘Best Season of CSPAN’: Twitter Left Cackling as McCarthy Fails House Speaker Vote a Record 11 Times

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., talks to reporters as the House voted to hold former President Donald Trump advisers Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in contempt of Congress over their monthslong refusal to comply with subpoenas from the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 6, 2022.House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has failed in his bid to gain the House speaker role a record 11 times from Tuesday through Thursday night before the House voted to adjourn until Friday at noon.A handful of hardline Republicans have refused to support McCarthy’s speaker bid, causing the Republican leader to offer a list of concessions, including limiting the powers of the speaker role, in an attempt to get enough votes to officially take the post.McCarthy needs a majority of the votes, not counting present votes, to secure the spot. More than 20 House Republicans have refused to vote for McCarthy, preventing him from gaining a majority with Democrats securely behind their candidate Rep. Hakeem Jefferies (D-NY).Republicans hold a 222-213 majority in the House at present. Assuming all members vote, McCarthy needs at least 218 votes to secure the spot.The eleven failed House speaker votes make it the longest House speaker nomination in 164 years.Democratic politicians, media personalities, celebrities, and left-leaning accounts were gleeful as McCarthy repeatedly failed to get the needed votes.