In excess of a dozen Republican members who previously did not support Mr McCarthy’s attempts to take effective control of the lower chamber of Congress were convinced to flip their vote on Friday, though he continued to fall short of enough votes to clinch a victory while drawing up behind-the-scenes concessions to build up his support.Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right Republican who stuck with Mr McCarthy throughout the process, walked down the aisle to pose for a photo with the new speaker as the final vote was tallied.After adjourning in the afternoon, lawmakers reconvened on Friday night for the 14th and 15th votes to determine the speakership, ending Mr McCarthy’s historic streak of failures and the longest election for the title in 164 years, underscoring the fragile moment in American democracy on the two-year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection while nearly exploding into blows among lawmakers.The four-day process has previewed incoming House Republicans’ new chaotic majority, which thanks to Mr McCarthy’s concessions to far-right members could give them relatively unrestricted domain to disrupt the workings of the House and hold him hostage to their demands.Mr Gaetz, among Republican holdouts who had refused to support Mr McCarthy in all rounds of voting, accused Mr McCarthy of pursuing an “exercise in vanity” and said there is “insufficient trust” among GOP lawmakers in the House Republican leader."