The stunning ouster of House Speaker sets up a battle for succession with no clear choice about who will take over the fractious Republican conference.McCarthy faced the historic result of the being the first House speaker to be removed subject to a motion to vacate the chair on Tuesday. He struggled for months to try to satisfy members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus while also funding the government.After an extraordinary 216-210 vote the office of the speaker was declared 'vacant' on Tuesday. That set up a high stakes closed door meeting of the House Republican Conference. There are numerous options both inside and outside McCarthy's leadership team.
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