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Rhiannon12866

(206,753 posts) Tue Oct 3, 2023, 06:36 PM Oct 2023

'MAGA meltdown': Heilemann reacts to McCarthy's ouster as speaker - Deadline - MSNBC

Executive Producer of Showtime's 'The Circus' John Heilemann and Democratic strategist Cornell Belcher join Nicolle Wallace to discuss Kevin McCarthy's removal as Speaker of the House. - Aired on 10/03/2023.

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'MAGA meltdown': Heilemann reacts to McCarthy's ouster as speaker - Deadline - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 2023 OP

Good riddance and take your trump Knee Pads with you. But will we get someone even Worse? MagaSmash Oct 2023 #1

That's my fear, too. Rhiannon12866 Oct 2023 #2

He was removed mostly by Dems leftieNanner Oct 2023 #3

That's what was said on MSNBC Rhiannon12866 Oct 2023 #4

MagaSmash

(5,580 posts)

1. Good riddance and take your trump Knee Pads with you. But will we get someone even Worse?

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Tue Oct 3, 2023, 06:41 PM

Oct 2023

Rhiannon12866

(206,753 posts)

2. That's my fear, too.

Reply to MagaSmash (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 3, 2023, 06:43 PM

Oct 2023

leftieNanner

(15,200 posts)

3. He was removed mostly by Dems

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Tue Oct 3, 2023, 06:46 PM

Oct 2023

Am I reading this correctly? Only 8 Republicans voted for removal. Right?

Rhiannon12866

(206,753 posts)

4. That's what was said on MSNBC

Reply to leftieNanner (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 3, 2023, 06:50 PM

Oct 2023

"The final vote was 216-210, with eight Republicans joining all the Democrats to vote to remove McCarthy. It's the first time a House speaker has been removed in a no-confidence vote."

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