If 10 Republicans Vote 'Present' Then The Bar Is Lowered For Votes Needed To Become Speaker
And Hakeem Jeffries (DEM-NYC) would then get elected as the new Speaker of a Republican-majority House of Representatives. (They count votes in unusual ways down there in DC... and Speaker means Chief
1230 PM Thursday CSPAN live, 7th round of voting for the new Speaker of the House of Representatives
https://www.c-span.org/video/?525175-1/house-set-seventh-ballot-elect-speaker&live
1255 PM (218 votes needed to win) CSPAN just declared McCarthy a loser again.
McCarthy 201
Jeffries 212
Donalds 19
Trump 1 (Gaaetz R-FL voted for Trump)
Present 1
McCarthy is doom…
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