- Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted his help for Kevin McCarthy.
- McCarthy has confronted 11 unsuccessful votes in his bid to be speaker of the Home of Representatives.
- “If not McCarthy, then severely who?” Musk requested his followers.
Twitter CEO and billionaire Elon Musk weighed in on the Home of Representatives speakership drama.
“Kevin McCarthy ought to be Speaker,” Musk, who considers himself “economically proper of middle, perhaps,” tweeted early Thursday morning.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican is aiming to change into the subsequent Home speaker — however he has come up brief in 11 votes over three days.
Twenty Republicans are withholding their votes. McCarthy has acquired criticism from Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Lauren Boebert, and others as his bid for Speaker attracts on. The Home presently has no lively member of Congress because the speaker vote is delaying the swearing-in course of and pushing again laws.
“Delicate, however I’m starting to suspect opinions differ on this matter … If not McCarthy, then severely who?” Musk said in a follow-up tweet on Thursday.
Hours after his preliminary tweets, Musk conducted a poll asking Twitter customers to decide on if he ought to “Keep out of politics” or “Keep shooting his feet.”
The vote concluded with 595,182 votes, 57.2% of whom mentioned he ought to “Hold taking pictures his toes.”
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 5, 2023
“Ouch my toes!!” he tweeted Thursday night quoting the completed ballot.
