McCarthy suffers seventh defeat in bid for House speaker as stalemate drags on

Voting to resume amid reports that McCarthy has made significant concessions to his roughly detractors

The stalemate over choosing a House speaker continued on Thursday, after the Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed to win the gavel for a seventh time.

McCarthy won 201 votes on the seventh ballot, leaving him 17 votes short of the 218 needed for a victory. The results mirrored previous rounds of voting, reflecting the entrenched opposition that McCarthy is facing within the House Republican conference.