Following a tumultuous day in which Kevin McCarthy failed three times to muster up enough votes to lead the House of Representatives, one of the last members to leave the floor was the last speaker, Nancy Pelosi.
As she left the cloakroom with her husband Paul, she said that the day, a long, tense slog through the roll calls, “speaks for itself,” per the AP.
Democrats seemed to relish in watching the chaos on the other side of the chamber, as its members remained “in array,” united behind Hakeem Jeffries, Pelosi’s successor as Democratic leader.
From the press gallery, it also looked like the Dems were having a much better time with the historic moment, too. This being the first day of a new Congress, family members were allowed on the floor, as toddlers played in the aisles and infant sons and daughters became the focal point of small group huddles.
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