All but three of the 21 “nays” had also voted against certifying Joe Biden’s election, and most were among the 20 votes opposing Kevin McCarthy’s House Speaker bid two years later, including Arizona’s Paul Gosar, Colorado’s Lauren Boebert, Georgia’s Andrew Clyde, Maryland’s Andy Harris, Montana’s Matt Rosendale, South Carolina’s Ralph Norman, Texas’s Louie Gohmert, and Virginia’s Bob Good. Eighteen of the twenty-one House holdouts represent either “purely rural” or “rural-suburban” districts. Apparently, “backing the blue” is a conditional sentiment for some of the United States’ most rural
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