Black conservative social media agitator Diamond passed away.
The controversial Black duo is no more. It was announced by Washed Up 45 and [Herneitha] Rochelle "Silk" Hardaway-Richardson that [Ineitha] Lynnette "Diamond" Hardaway has passed away. Some claim she died from severe complications of the coronavirus.
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Diamond & Silk shot to fame after they made a viral video slamming Megyn Kelly while praising the former reality television star, business mogul turned politician.
They were the biggest Black supporters besides gay Black agitators Terrence K. Williams and Christian Walker. Christian somewhat denounced MAGA and Terrence has resorted to grifting by selling $20 pancake mix.
These two were fixtures on Fox, then Newsmax and before Diamond's passing, Frank TV, sponsored by My Pillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.
Diamond was 51 years old.
Black Twitter was not kind to Diamond.
Diamond —of the right-wing, Trump- loving duo Diamond and Silk— has died. In late November, she was hospitalized due to COVID-19. The duo was fired by Fox News a couple years ago for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines. You cannot script this stuff.
Hardaway and Richardson are sisters. They were born as Ineitha Lynette Hardaway and Herneitha Rochelle Hardaway; they go by their middle names. They have three other siblings.
Their parents are Freeman Hardaway and Betty Willis Hardaway, televangelical pastors based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Freeman and Betty Hardaway sold purported weight loss cures, and wreaths that ward off witchcraft. For a fee of $50, Betty wrote the names of customers in a Bible, telling customers that this would make God answer their prayers.
The duo Diamond & Silk were famous from 2015 until 2023.
Hardaway and Richardson were registered as Democrats in 2012. Their first YouTube videos were a montage about police brutality, titled "Black Lives Matter" (it received 17,000 views), and a video about Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a Texas jail (it received 32,000 views). After the pair began to make pro-Washed Up 45 videos, their YouTube channel started to grow considerably.
Although officially unaffiliated with the Washed Up 45 campaign, they urged support for Washed Up 45 via social media efforts and rallies and traveled to three states for the campaign. The two women first joined Washed Up 45 as the "Stump for Trump Girls" on stage at his Raleigh, North Carolina, rally on December 4, 2015. They later warmed up the crowd at the Washed Up 45 rally on January 2, 2016, in Biloxi, Mississippi. They initiated a "Ditch and Switch" campaign to encourage Democrats to register as Republicans and created a website explaining to voters which states had closed primaries and when the deadlines were for changing party affiliations.
On November 2, 2016, Diamond and Silk appeared with Lara Trump, wife of Eric Trump, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on behalf of the campaign. They were paid $1,274.94 for field consulting work by the campaign.
They regularly appeared on Fox News shows including "Softball" Hannity, Fox News Sunday, Watters' World, and The Ingraham Angle, and Fox & Friends. In November 2018, Diamond and Silk were given a show on Fox Nation, the online Fox News streaming service. They were covered on ABC's Nightline. Hardaway is notably more talkative, while Richardson often just expresses agreement.
Black Republicans embrace Washed Up 45.
A documentary film by Hardaway and Richardson titled Dummycrats premiered in October 2018 at the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.
In May 2019, during a Fox & Friends appearance, Diamond and Silk claimed that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was a "non-functioning alcoholic" who "slurs her words." This was in reference to a doctored and slowed down video that appeared to show her slurring her words. Shortly thereafter, Fox & Friends had to clarify for its viewers that the video was manipulated.
In 2019, Diamond and Silk appeared in a 2020 re-election advertisement where they gave a pitch for his re-election. At the same time, Diamond and Silk had a weekly show on Fox News' streaming service.
Beginning in March 2020, Hardaway and Richardson questioned various information about COVID-19 including whether or not the number of deaths from the pandemic was being inflated in order to make Washed Up 45 look incompetent. These questions led to the termination of their work with Fox in April.
President Joe Biden is heading to Latin America for a summit. On his way there, he visits El Paso.
The far right who often complain about the U.S.-Mexico border and migrants coming into the states are outraged that he went to the city. Of course, the U.S. Secret Service, Texas state authorities and local officials had to clear the encampments staged by migrants.
Part of the safety of the president is to clear a path. The president is quite aware and does not need to be reintroduced to encampments. The border should not be an issue. It should be the least polarizing thing happening in this country.
Alas, Republicans need scapegoats. So why not pick on the vulnerable?
Washed Up 45 managed to clear a path by violently removing protesters in 2020 to stage a photo op.
The president said visiting the border will not stop migrants from entering the country.
It is a stupid op. It is playing with human lives. It is dog whistle politics to spark a white terrorist to kill politicians, people of color and migrants.
Biden visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time since taking office, tackling one of the most politically charged issues in the country as he prepares for a re-election bid.
Accompanied by Border Patrol agents, Biden toured a section of the wall that divides the two countries, a signature priority of his Republican predecessor, in an effort to demonstrate that he was taking the issue seriously.
Biden on Thursday said his administration would tighten immigration enforcement by blocking Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants at the border, expanding the nationalities of those who can be expelled back to Mexico.
But that has not impressed Republicans like Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who accused him of failing to enforce immigration laws.
"You have violated your constitutional obligation to defend the States against invasion through faithful execution of federal laws," Abbott, a possible 2024 presidential candidate, wrote in a letter he handed to Biden upon his arrival in the state.
Biden told reporters he had not yet read the letter.
Joined by Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the president also visited the Bridge of the Americas, which connects the United States and Mexico, and viewed equipment that border officials use to detect illegal drugs.
Biden hopes to strengthen relations with Border Patrol agents, some of whom have bristled at the rollback of hardline enforcement policies by the White House.
The long-term goal of Congress reforming America's creaky immigration system is unlikely to succeed given Republicans' newly assumed control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Right-wing lawmakers have repeatedly torpedoed U.S. immigration reform proposals over the past two decades.
Biden sent Congress an immigration reform plan on his first day in office two years ago, but it floundered due to opposition from Republicans, who also blocked his request for $3.5 billion to beef up border enforcement.
Republicans are pushing their own plans for the border after securing a narrow majority in the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections.
Incompetent Republican U.S. Representative Jim Jordan told Fox News that Biden should adopt the zero-tolerance policies pursued by Trump, which included separating children from their migrant parents.
"They've allowed now a situation where frankly, we no longer have a border," Jordan said.
Mayorkas on Sunday said international crises and legislative gridlock limited Biden's ability to reduce the number of migrants making their way to the United States.
"We're just dealing with a broken system," Mayorkas told reporters aboard Air Force One on the way to Texas.
El Paso's Democratic mayor declared a state of emergency last month, citing hundreds of migrants' sleeping on the streets in cold temperatures and thousands being apprehended every day.
U.S. border officials apprehended a record 2.2 million migrants at the border with Mexico in the 2022 fiscal year that ended in September, though that number includes individuals who tried to cross multiple times.
Donation bins can be deadly. Once inside if there's no exit, its death.
When people donate their clothes to those charity bins, sometimes folks raid them for the clothes. A woman was found dead in a donation bin. The police have not determined a cause of death, folks are shocked to find out how such a death occurred.
Clothing bins can be deadly if someone attempts to grab bin items out and get stuck in the box. It has been a very serious matter.
This isn't the last timesomeone was found dead inside a donation bin.
The victim was reported missing in March and the circumstances of her death remain a mystery.
Leslie Lemoine's daughter Hannah Gates said she drove by the Camden West Inn for nine months during the search for her mother not knowing that her body was just a few feet away.
Gates said she and her family had been searching for her mother since March.
"I feel like we're getting some closure that we've needed for nine months and it's hard, but we're all processing it in our own ways and we know it's still a journey you know, to get justice for her," Gates said.
South Carolina woman found inside a bin.
That journey begins with finding out how her mother died and how she ended up in a donation bin that was left unchecked for months.
A South Carolina woman's body was found in a donation bin after having been missing for months.
"We're assuming that the location we found her in was just where her body was dumped at," said Kershaw County Sheriff Lee Boan. "So, it's a dump location. Not necessarily the location of where she passed away at."
Boan said that now with a positive id on the body they can move forward in the investigation.
"We'll start tracking from there and figure out what happened to her and who put her in the clothes bin," Boan said.
Coroner David West initially believed it would take up to six months to get a positive id, but he says a tattoo on Lemoine's calf that her daughter recognized on the body sped up the process, but with the condition in which the body was found will make it a little more difficult to find out how she died.
"We go next to toxicology," West said. "Try to pull some kind of tissue and stuff like that. They were lucky enough to pull some of that. So, we go in there try and pull something from there and that will be sent off for testing."
That will show if Lemoine had drugs in her system. They're also planning to send her bones to an anthropologist to look for trauma.
The next step for Gates and her family is to gain legal custody of Lemoine's 10-year-old daughter, Haven, and while she said she now has a sense of peace, she was hopeful that her mother would one day return.
Certain bins are places where bodies are dumped.
"I played the conversation so many times in my mind," Gates said. "At first I thought I'd still be mad. First I was yelling, you know, where have you been? Why did you just leave and as time went it just got to the point where I just wanted to hug her and tell her that I forgive her."
Gates said she'll remember her mother as a kind and generous woman. At this stage, investigators are gathering statements from the community and surveillance video from behind the hotel.
The tragic death of a woman being sucked into a plane engine. The woman was decapitated as soon as she went in. It happened in Montgomery, Alabama.
Before I begin, I want to say some things about Alabama. The state had 35% Black population and there is little to no major African American representation in the state.
Montgomery, Birmingham, Greenville, Selma and Anniston are cities where the majority of the population is African American.
The state capital of Alabama surpassed Birmingham as the second largest city.
Huntsville in the north of the state has a population of 220,000 residents. Montgomery now has a population of 204,000 residents. Birmingham has a population of 194,000. Mobile has a population of 185,000.
Birmingham is still the largest metropolitan area with 1.3 million residents.
An employee killed at the Montgomery Regional Airport on Dec. 31 has been identified as Courtney Edwards, a mother of three, according to the union that represented her.
Edwards was a ground handling agent for Piedmont Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines. The Communication Workers of America posted information about Edwards on its website and has set up a Go Fund Me page.
Woman died after jet engine sucked her in.
Richard Honeycutt, vice president of CWA District 3, issued a statement about Edwards.
“The news of this terrible tragedy was heartbreaking,” Honeycutt said. “Courtney was a valued member of her team and our union. She was away from her family working on New Year’s Eve making sure passengers got to where they needed to be for the holidays. She represents the very best of our CWA airport members, who constantly make sacrifices to serve the flying public.
“Her memory will live on in the hearts and minds of her fellow CWA members and those closest to her. Our staff and local leaders are on the ground coordinating with the relevant agencies as the investigation continues. We are doing as much as we can to provide support for her family and loved ones during this most tragic time.”
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident. The NTSB released a statement on Jan. 1 saying that the death occurred when “a ground support personnel was ingested into the engine.”
Animated scenario shows a person being grinded into an engine.
The “worker was fatally injured on the ramp at Montgomery Regional Airport where American Airlines Flight 3408, an Embraer E175, was parked,” the FAA said in an earlier statement to AL.com.
Donielle Prophete, president of CWA Local 3645, set up the fundraising page and said she has been talking with Edwards’ mother. Prophete said the tragedy is difficult and follows another accidental death of a union member at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in 2019.
“It’s hard losing two members in a three-year span,” Prophete said. “We’re still trying to get past the shock.”
Appears that Laura Loomer, the far right activist and Proud Boy provocateur is back on Twitter. Elon Musk reinstated that white nationalist. She was one of the notorious ones who got banned for racism, inciting violence and sharing private information about people she railed on.
Loomer, a twice failed Congressional candidate was banned on Twitter in 2018.
She appeared on InfoWars stating that Twitter ruined her life. She threatened to sue the tech company and even chained herself to its New York City office.
Roger Stone and called herself “pro-white nationalism,” is back on Twitter.
After getting BANNED on Twitter in 2018, and being digitally exterminated on nearly every other social media site, payment processor, Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, & my own bank, I'M BACK!!!!!@ElonMusk has finally unchained me from the doors of Twitter HQ!
Just like I said when I confronted @RepAOC and @RepStenyHoyer outside of the Capitol this week, Kevin McCarthy accepted and used STOLEN FTX funds in GOP primaries.
Do you think Judy McCarthy knows what Kevin has been up to?
I mean she must, right? Especially after he dragged her in front of the cameras in 2015 and made her stand next to him when he had to drop out of the race for Speaker of the House because he was caught having an affair. pic.twitter.com/fLjRVYA4ET
In 2018, the provocateur was suspended from the site after making a series of anti-Muslim statements about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and was kept off despite a 2020 run for the House in Florida’s 21st Congressional District. That same hear, she drew national attention for interrupting Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey’s congressional hearing, calling for the site to “stop silencing conservative voices.”
Her ceaseless efforts to spread disinformation also got her banned from Facebook, Instagram, as well financial services like Venmo and new Twitter owner Elon Musk’s own creation, Paypal.
“After getting BANNED on Twitter in 2018, and being digitally exterminated on nearly every other social media site, payment processor, Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, & my own bank, I’M BACK!!!!!,” Loomer tweeted Thursday, for the first time in four years. “@ElonMusk has finally unchained me from the doors of Twitter HQ!”
Loomer vows to run for Congress. She considered challenging Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL), Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and Rep. George Santos (R-NY). Loomer is a resident of Florida.
Again, you do not have to live in the state or district to run for House of Representatives.
That's why Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) left Philadelphia and moved to Salt Lake City.
That's why Nina Turner left Maryland and moved back to Cleveland.
In Newport News, Virginia, heroic teacher Abby Zwerner is fighting for her life after one of her students shot her. The terrorist is caught. The terrorist is only 6 years old.
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
What happens when a Black person shoots a white person?
They obviously go to jail and are judged by the junk food media agitators for having some fault in their life. It is common that the far right wants Black America to condemn the actions of one Black extremist, one Black criminal or one Black politician.
According to the far right: White shooters are mentally ill. Black shooters are unrepentant criminals. Gay shooters are active groomers. Muslim shooters are terrorists. Hispanics and Asians shooters are illegal immigrants. Almost all mass shooters are registered Democrats because they have liked one thing common to the left.
The Republicans usually amplify white victims. Seeing it is Newport News, a majority Black community and it happened at a public school, it almost certainly on white extremist websites. It is a recipe for phony outrage by the very people who oppose solutions to solving gun violence.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and the U.S. Representatives from Virginia were notified about this shooting.
School Superintendent Dr. George Parker, III said the Richneck Elementary School will be closed on Monday, January 9 and Tuesday, January 10.
The school is located at 205 Tyner Drive, off Jefferson Avenue.
Dispatch received the first call about the incident at 2 p.m. Friday.
A Virginia teacher who was critically injured when she was shot by a 6-year-old student in Newport News is showing signs of improvement as authorities struggle to understand how a child so young could be involved in a school shooting, https://t.co/wmZ62rvQa1pic.twitter.com/MrscZ8PliP
The teacher is being treated at Riverside Regional Medical Center, and as of Saturday afternoon, was listed in stable condition, according to a hospital spokesperson. In an update sent Saturday afternoon, police say the teacher is improving and is currently in stable condition.
Abby Zwerner saved her class by disarming the terrorist.
On Saturday afternoon, James Madison University confirmed that the teacher involved in the shooting was Zwerner.
Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew confirmed a 6-year-old boy is in custody. The boy had a handgun in his possession. He said this was not an accident. This terrorist has an intention to shoot and injure others.
Police said during the press conference that the shooting was not accidental and that they are working to learn how the student got a firearm and why the shooting occurred.
No students were injured in the shooting.
The school system sent information to Richneck families in a phone call and email, and posted it to social media about an hour after the incident.
There was a school shooting in Newport News in the fall of 2021, at Heritage High School. In that incident, a student fired several shots in a busy hallway. A 17-year-old boy and girl were wounded by the gunfire. The terrorist was 16 years old when a judge sentenced him to 10 years for the shooting.
Every community in the United States will eventually have a legacy. A legacy of tragedy. Gun violence, monkeypox and COVID-19 will affect your town, your family and your life. So I don't want to hear that bullshit about how gun reform is taking away your rights to own firearms.
I don't want to hear that protesting against police killing people of color is hate on cops in general. I don't want to hear talk about the coronavirus being a myth.
When you hear folks say "gun rights," what they really mean is that its white privilege. This good guy with a gun nonsense has to end. The cops didn't do nothing when children were shot inside a school. A security guard was shot dead trying to protect shoppers. A cop accidentally shot his own. The good guy who tried to stop a bad guy is outgunned and a part of the rule #3.
Remember #3 means: The "good guy with a gun" better be prepared to die if they want to stop a shooter.
I don't want to hear folks say masks and vaccine mandates impede their freedoms. It prevents a deadly outbreak from spreading. If you want to die from the coronavirus, that's on you. We lost over 1 million people from the coronavirus.
I don't want to hear the shit about guns saving lives. Cause a bullet does not have eyes and it's always likely gonna hit a target. These folks seem to not get it. These incidents are a tragic part of American history. Thoughts and prayers and your heart going out to the victims is not enough. It quite frankly is an insult. I am also tired of scapegoating Black on Black crime, Chicago, Baltimore and Democratic mayors for the nation's obsession to be numb to gun violence. You pretty much enable this nonsense by deflecting.
Never stops.
President Joe Biden is trying to curb gun violence. However, he has no support from Republicans. Most Democrats and America are for gun control measures. However the two Democrats in the Senate refuse to change the filibuster rules and its holding us back.
The National Rifle Association is always pushing against it. They will not relinquish from the narrative that guns are not saving lives. The Republicans aided by a fickle junk food media are openly encouraging anarchy and disruption in a desperate attempt for the Republicans to win back Congress and the White House. These agitators are calling for Biden to curb crime but will not help him. They want more guns on the street. It makes no sense.
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The call number to the U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official phone number, 202-224-3121. Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES.
Sounds about white. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her far right allies warn House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to keep his word or pay the price.
The Republican Party will continue to keep its leaders white and male.
The Republican Party proves to the world, they can't govern. They want to rewrite history. They are literally the party of identity politics. They can not get out of the shadow of Washed Up 45. They support chaos, insurrection and death.
After 15 times, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) becomes the House Speaker. Dude gave up some major concessions to earn this spot. So right now, he will be considered ineffective.
After the five opposing members voted present, it eased McCarthy's path.
He is Speaker-elect and he will get a call from President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
After four days of utter chaos, McCarthy will take the helm of a broken Republican Party.
A party split between its white nationalists and radical extremists.
Republicans quickly moved to adjourn, but then McCarthy rushed forward to switch his vote to remain in session as colleagues chanted “One more time!”
The few Republican holdouts began voting present as well, dropping the tally he needed to finally seize the gavel in what was heading toward a dramatic finish on the fourth long day of a grueling standoff that has shown the strengths and fragility American democracy.
McCarthy had declared to reporters earlier in the day that he believed “we’ll have the votes to finish this once and for all.”
The day’s stunning turn of events came after McCarthy agreed to many of the detractors’ demands -- including the reinstatement of a longstanding House rule that would allow any single member to call a vote to oust him from office.
Even if McCarthy is able to secure the votes he needs, he will emerge as a weakened speaker, having given away some powers and constantly under the threat of being booted by his detractors.
But he could also be emboldened as a survivor of one of the more brutal fights for the gavel in U.S. history. Not since the Civil War era has a speaker’s vote dragged through so many rounds of voting.
The showdown that has stymied the new Congress came against the backdrop of the second anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which shook the country when a mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters tried to stop Congress from certifying the Republican’s 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) vow to gridlock McCarthy, mainstream Republicans and Democrats.
At a Capitol event on Friday, some lawmakers, mostly Democrats, observed a moment of silence and praised officers who helped protect Congress on that day. And at the White House, Biden handed out medals to officers and others who fought the attackers.
“America is a land of laws, not chaos,” he said.
At the afternoon speaker’s vote, a number of Republicans tiring of the spectacle temporarily walked out when one of McCarthy’s most ardent challengers railed against the GOP leader.
Contours of a deal with conservative holdouts who have been blocking McCarthy’s rise emerged after three dismal days and 11 failed votes in an intraparty standoff unseen in modern times.
And an upbeat McCarthy told reporters as he arrived at the Capitol, “We’re going to make progress. We’re going to shock you.”
One significant former holdout, Republican Scott Perry, chairman of the conservative Freedom Caucus who had been a leader of Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election, tweeted after his switched vote for McCarthy: “We’re at a turning point.”
Another Republican holdout, Byron Donalds of Florida, who was repeatedly nominated as an alternative candidate for speaker, switched on Friday, too, voting for McCarthy.
Trump may have played a role in swaying the holdouts. Donalds said he had spoken to the former president who had been urging Republicans to wrap up their public dispute the day before.
As Rep. Mike Garcia nominated McCarthy for Friday, he also thanked the U.S. Capitol Police who were given a standing ovation for protecting lawmakers and the legislative seat of democracy on Jan. 6.
But in nominating the Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat Jim Clyburn recalled the horror of that day and told his colleagues: “The eyes of the country are on us today,” he said.
Without a speaker, the chamber is unable swear in members and begin its 2023-24 session, a sign of the difficulty ahead for the new Republican majority as it tries to govern.
Our D stands for delivery. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is the Minority Leader.
Electing a speaker is normally an easy, joyous task for a party that has just won majority control. But not this time: About 200 Republicans have been stymied by 20 far-right colleagues who said he’s not conservative enough.
The disorganized start to the new Congress pointed to difficulties ahead with Republicans now in control of the House, much the way that some past Republican speakers, including John Boehner, had trouble leading a rebellious right flank. The result: government shutdowns, standoffs and Boehner’s early retirement when conservatives threatened to oust him.
The agreement McCarthy presented to the holdouts from the Freedom Caucus and others centers around rules changes they have been seeking for months. Those changes would shrink the power of the speaker’s office and give rank-and-file lawmakers more influence in drafting and passing legislation.
At the core of the emerging deal is the reinstatement of a House rule that would allow a single lawmaker to make a motion to “vacate the chair,” essentially calling a vote to oust the speaker. McCarthy had resisted allowing a return to the longstanding rule that former Speaker Nancy Pelosi had done away with, because it had been held over the head of past Republican Speaker Boehner. But it appears McCarthy had no other choice.
Other wins for the holdouts are more obscure and include provisions in the proposed deal to expand the number of seats available on the House Rules Committee, to mandate 72 hours for bills to be posted before votes and to promise to try for a constitutional amendment that would impose federal limits on the number of terms a person could serve in the House and Senate.
What started as a political novelty, the first time since 1923 a nominee had not won the gavel on the first vote, has devolved into a bitter Republican Party feud and deepening potential crisis.
Before Friday’s ballots, Democratic leader Jeffries of New York had won the most votes on every ballot but also remained short of a majority. McCarthy ran second, gaining no ground.
The longest fight for the gavel started in late 1855 and dragged on for two months, with 133 ballots, during debates over slavery in the run-up to the Civil War.
