Former Republican US President Donald Trump asked congressmen from his own party to vote for Kevin McCarthy to lead the House of Representatives, a call that could unlock the election of the president of this house of the US Congress after elected Republicans close to Trump prevented McCarthy from getting a majority in the vote on Tuesday, Agerpres reports.

„It’s time for our great elected Republicans in the House to vote for Kevin,” Trump wrote on his social network Truth, according to AFP, an unprecedented public support from the former president for Kevin McCarthy.

Although Republicans won a majority in the House of Representatives following the midterm elections, they failed to elect Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House on Tuesday because about 20 Trump loyalist congressmen did not vote for him, criticizing and that he is not conservative enough and that his centrist political approach would bring him closer to the progressive Democrats of President Joe Biden.

Since the president of the Chamber could not be elected, its activity is blocked and the congressmen cannot take the oath, an unprecedented situation in the last century. A new vote is scheduled to take place on Wednesday at 17:00 GMT.

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