Zinke delivers the final decisive vote. And Rosendale rejects a phone call from President Trump? McCarthy elected Speaker. Here's some of the Montana specific highlights.
Representative-elect Matt Rosendale: "You can send any mouthpiece up here that's willing to go along and push a green button for leadership. And that's not what I was sent up here to do."
Zinke noted that over 90% of the GOP caucus is behind McCarthy, including half of the Freedom Caucus members, Jim Jordan, and former President Donald Trump.
Shortly before noon Mountain Time on Tuesday, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) failed to secure 218 votes during the first round of voting to be selected as Speaker of the House. As a result, the vote will now go to another round for the first time since 1923.
The great Dave Skinner has followed the money once again for us. Here's his latest investigative report looking at the money flowing into Montana elections.
Dr. Al: "If she was from Montana, she'd be from Butte...So when she says all independent Democrats- you need to leave the party- she's talking to Montana Democrats and the Democrats of Eastern Montana."
The Democrats want to set up an "Iron Curtain" splitting Eastern Montana and Western Montana once again. I am confident that Western Montana conservatives now stand united to make sure they don't end up "behind the Iron Curtain."