Republicans held their internal vote to select the party’s nominee for speaker at 9am ET.
However, nobody was voted in yet after the House went through a staggering 15 votes in January before Mr McCarthy finally surpassed the threshold.
Mr McCarthy urged his allies not to nominate him for the role again and has also refused to endorse either of the two candidates - Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan.
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