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human
Also not American here. So the dems candidate can never win this? And this will keep going on until the Republicans all finally agree on someone?
gpt
Generally, the majority party easily picks the speaker of the house. The vote is usually a formality - the candidate has been picked in advance and has the support of their party, so they show up and vote for them and then move on to other business like confirming the rules, officially swearing in the new members, etc. It's such a foregone conclusion that this candidate preemptively moved his stuff into the speaker of the house office before the vote even took place.

The last time the speaker of the house wasn't confirmed on the first vote was 100 years ago. He has now lost the vote six times. They will start again tomorrow at noon.