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<p>Chaos overtook the Republican party on Thursday, as the election for a new House speaker was postponed after current majority whip Kevin McCarthy backed out of the race.<br/></p>
<p>Current House speaker <a href=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/john-boehner data-link-name=auto-linked-tag data-component=auto-linked-tag class=" u-underline" target=_blank>John Boehner</a> told the conference that the election was postponed at a meeting that was supposed to see the House Republicans vote for their nominee for speaker.</p>
<p>It is unclear at this time whether it is just the GOP ballot that has been postponed or the overall election on the House floor, which was scheduled for 29 October.</p>
<p>In a <a href=https://twitter.com/SabrinaSiddiqui/status/652166759697416192 data-link-name="in body link" data-component=in-body-link class=" u-underline" target=_blank>statement</a>, McCarthy said: “Over the last week it has become clear to me that our conference is deeply divided and needs to unite behind one leader. </p>
<p>“I have always put this conference ahead of myself. Therefore I am withdrawing my candidacy for speaker of the House.”</p>
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<p>The surprise move came just 24 hours after the so-called Freedom Caucus, a group of hardline rightwing Republicans, announced that they were <a href=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/07/republicans-freedom-caucus-daniel-webster-speaker data-link-name="in body link" data-component=in-body-link class=" u-underline" target=_blank>backing Daniel Webster</a> against McCarthy.</p>
<p>“Two minutes ago I was in there listening to what I thought was going to be his nominating speech, only to learn that he’s not running,” said Ryan Costello of California.</p>
<p>“McCarthy backed out, said he was not going to run at this time, then Speaker Boehner got up, said the election was postponed, then the chairwoman banged the gavel and the meeting was over,” Costello said. “And then we all looked around at one another and I don’t think half of us knew what had happened.”</p>
<p>McCarthy was considered Boehner’s favoured candidate. </p>
<p><strong></strong>Thursday’s developments show the extreme state of disarray in which House Republicans now find themselves, with the balance of power in the hands of an extreme conservative minority who have the power to topple the speaker at any time – a situation which may see Democrats becoming <a draggable=true href=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/08/house-democrats-may-view-boehners-departure-with-serious-nostalgia data-link-name="in body link" data-component=in-body-link class=" u-underline" target=_blank>nostalgic for the Boehner era</a>.</p>
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<p>It would have been unprecedented for a large bloc such as the Freedom Caucus to have voted against the party’s choice of nominee, as they had hinted they might do with Webster.<br tabindex="-1"/></p>
<p>On Thursday morning, about half the Republican conference gathered in a basement meeting room in the Capitol for a forum in which the candidates for speaker made their pitches. “All three did well,” Tom Cole, the deputy majority whip, told the Guardian, referring to McCarthy, Webster and Jason Chaffetz, who had tried to position himself as a bridge between the ideological extremes of the party.</p>
<p>Many rightwing House <a href=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans data-link-name=auto-linked-tag data-component=auto-linked-tag class=" u-underline" target=_blank>Republicans</a> object to what they see as having been a period of autocratic, high-handed rule by Boehner. “The false, lazy narrative is we want a more conservative speaker,” Justin Amash told a meeting of conservatives on Wednesday. “What we want is a process speaker ... who follows the House rules.</p>
<p>“If the rules are followed, sometimes we’ll get our way, sometimes we won’t. People get too uptight in this place about who votes with us,” Amash added.</p>
<p>But there has also been an ideological component to the Freedom Caucus’s objections to the Boehner-McCarthy approach. Steve King nominated Webster for speaker in January 2015, during a failed coup attempt against Boehner, and told the Guardian he was going to support him again in Thursday’s conference ballot. “He’s the strongest on immigration, he’s the most anti-amnesty of the three candidates, so that’s another piece for me,” King said. </p>
<p>“For me the only vote that matters is on October 29,” Tom Massie told the Guardian. Massie, who is a hard-line conservative but not a member of the Freedom Caucus, said at a <a href=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/07/republicans-freedom-caucus-daniel-webster-speaker data-link-name="in body link" data-component=in-body-link class=" u-underline" target=_blank>meeting</a> of conservatives on Wednesday that McCarthy was “absolutely not an option” because of his <a href=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/30/hillary-clinton-kevin-mccarthy-benghazi-committee-deeply-distressing data-link-name="in body link" data-component=in-body-link class=" u-underline" target=_blank>comments</a> about the Benghazi committee. </p>
<p>Massie also downplayed the importance of Thursday’s vote. “Conference is fine for electing a majority leader and conference chair and whatever the heck positions you want to make up,” he added, “but there’s only one in the constitution and that’s the speaker, and he only becomes the speaker by getting a majority of the people, so it’s only about the floor vote.</p>
<p>“With Boehner’s departure, I think it’s unwise to advocate the beatings will continue until morale improves,” he said. “That seems to be the theme behind ‘we’re going to kick you out of the conference if you don’t vote for the person we pick’.”</p>
<p><em tabindex="-1">Additional reporting by Ben Jacobs and Sabrina Siddiqui in Washington</em></p>
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