Rep. Byron Donalds, a second-term Republican congressman from Florida, emerged as a nominee for House speaker on Wednesday after a group of hardline conservatives banded together to keep Rep. Kevi…
for House speaker by a group of hardline conservatives who have banded together to keep GOP leader Kevin McCarthy from winning the gavel.
“For the first time in history, there have been two black Americans placed into the nomination for speaker of the House,” Roy said, noting that Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York also was nominated for speaker by his party.Cliff Owen / CNP / SplashNews.co during his first successful campaign for Congress as a “a strong, Trump-supporting, gun-owning, liberty-loving, pro-life, politically incorrect black man.”Getty Images
Donalds later enrolled at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, but was arrested again and accused of bribery in connection with a scheme to defraud a bank. “I just started going to church and I started really examining my life and my choices,” he told the Journal of his return to the straight and narrow.
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