During Thursday's seventh voting session for Speaker of the House, Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz threw a somewhat predictable curveball by casting his vote for Trump.
Having made his distaste towards Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy known over the duration of the previous voting sessions, in which McCarthy consistently came up short on the amount of votes needed to land in his desired role as speaker, Gaetz went so far as to refer to him as a "squatter" on Tuesday night. That being said, his move to introduce Trump as an option is a clear break from the 19 other representatives leaning away from McCarthy, all of whom cast their vote for Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, as The Hill points out.
