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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Perhaps a bit unrelated to the speaker postion, but how do members of their respective parties get chosen as leader? Is there some sort of internal vote within the house where they chose McCarthy as the republican leader even before they gained house majority?
gpt
&gt;Is there some sort of internal vote within the house where they chose McCarthy as the republican leader even before they gained house majority?

yes. they only need majority of the caucus to get the leadership position, but because Republican majority is so small, they need people who didn't vote for him in leadership to vote for him for speaker too, and that's where the problem is.