Republicans are in complete shock after Lauren Boebert demands Donald Trump tell Kevin McCarthy that he LOST!

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The House of Representatives deadlocked again Wednesday on the second day of voting for a new speaker — failing to put Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California in the post through five ballots.

An alliance of 20 conservative rebels again refused to back McCarthy and gave their votes instead to Byron Donalds of Florida in the fourth and fifth rounds.

McCarthy’s chances worsened as Indiana Republican Victoria Spartz voted “present” twice after supporting McCarthy in the first three ballots Tuesday.

Spartz told reporters after round four that she was “still supporting” McCarthy but “we need to move the needle” by going “back to the room” to “discuss how we can address the concerns of 20 people.”

Moments later, however, the House careened into a fifth vote without substantial additional negotiations.




“You’ve been having my favorite president [Donald Trump] call us and tell us we needed to knock this off,” one of the GOP rebels, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, said ahead of the fifth vote.

“I actually think it needs to be reversed. The president needs to tell Kevin McCarthy that ‘Sir, you do not have the votes and it is time to withdraw,'” Boebert said to gasps from fellow Republicans.

In the fourth and fifth rounds, McCarthy received 201 votes, yet again falling short of the 217 he needed amid increasing frustration from the majority of Republicans who support him