Two members of the Congressional Black and Progressive Caucuses are speaking out after a Black Republican member of Congress is tokenized by a member of his own party during a nomination speech for the House Speaker's race on Wednesday.
Just before the sixth round of voting got under way for House Speaker, Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., became the third GOP member of Congress to nominate Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla. Perry, who spoke for a band of defectors who've vocally been against electing Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to the top spot in the House, told members they would "fix" a broken Washington and that history could also be made by "electing the first Black Republican Speaker of the House."
