The Republican Party’s single vote on the House Police Reform Act says it “accidentally pressed the wrong vote button.”

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Rep. Gooden launchesLance GoodenHouse Republicans Ask for Information on National Guard Threats to DC READ: Republicans Voted to Challenge Election Results Here are Republicans who plan to challenge Electoral College results MORE (Texas), the only House Republican to vote in favor of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act on Wednesday, tweeted Wednesday evening that he voted in error.

“I accidentally pressed the wrong vote button and I realized too late. I have changed the official record to reflect my opposition to George Floyd’s partisan police law, ”Gooden said in a deleted tweet since then.

He later posted a similar tweet that included a record of changing his vote to no, adding that he “would not support the radical left’s anti-police law.”

The measure passed House 220-212 on Wednesday night, a vote initially scheduled for Thursday but pushed after Thursday’s House session, canceled amid concerns over threats to the Capitol from supporters of the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon.

Two Democrats voted against the measure, Representatives Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Ron KindRonald (Ron) James KindSix Six Ways to Visualize a Division of the American House Republican Campaign Deploys Mid-Term Goal List Five Centrist Democrats Oppose Pelosi for President in a Tight MORE (D-Wis.). The bill will face an upward battle in the 50-50 Senate. However, the presidency of the Black Caucus Congress Joyce BeattyJoyce Birdson, members of the BeattyBlack Caucus, pressure Biden to play Shalanda Young for OMB chief Harris holds first meeting in ceremonial office with members of CBC On The Money: Senate panels postpone meetings of Tanden in negative sign | Biden signs the supply chain order after a “positive” meeting with lawmakers MORE (D-Ohio) expressed optimism about talks with the senator. Tim ScottTimothy (Tim) Eugene ScottTrump backs Tim Scott for re-election This week: Senate takes coronavirus relief after reverse minimum wage. (RS.C.), the only black Republican in the House and author of his own police reform bill.

Attitudes toward the police, Beatty said, are “different from last time, where we are in the country.”

“I think it has given more feeling to people: that could be right at the right time,” he added.

Floyd, the bill’s namesake, died May 25 in Minneapolis after former police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for several minutes despite Floyd’s pleas that he could not breathe. Floyd’s death sparked nationwide protests and some violent riots, although investigations indicated that 93 percent of the demonstrations were peaceful.

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