Fifteen times lucky! You have to go back over a century and a half, pre-Civil War, to see anything like it when it comes to selecting a speaker of the US House of Representatives. The establishment Republican candidate, Kevin McCarthy, had to put his name forward fifteen separate times, failing each of the previous fourteen, before he could convince enough dissenting Republican members of the House of Representatives to give him the job.
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