Kevin McCarthy's speakership bid is looking more cursed by the minute.
. And his apparent plan to win the gavel by calling the bluffs of a small group of detractors just revealed a fundamental truth about McCarthy: he’s not holding a winning hand.After adjourning in the wake of the third vote, the House is set to reconvene at noon tomorrow. Faced with the reality that they may never convert his opposition, McCarthy and his allies are now scrambling to come up with a plan B to rescue his hopes for the speakership.
If Democrats have no interest in bailing out McCarthy—or any other Republican, for that matter—then Republicans will somehow have to find a solution in their own conference.reported that members were apparently discussing the possibility of negotiating subcommittee chairmanships in exchange for votes.
The fact that it was not enough, many Republicans believe, is a testament that hardliners never would have voted for McCarthy simply because they didn’t want to, and they don’t like him. “I do think you have had a number of people who are not good faith negotiators. They have been asking for lots of things. Some of them may not have any interest in actually cutting the deal,” said Rep. Dusty Johnson .
Inevitably, it only takes five Republicans to block McCarthy from the gavel, barring any Democrats cooperating with Republicans to get to 218 votes. Some reporters tweeted suggestions Democrats—out of boredom or disengagement—might start missing future Speaker votes. But there’s no indication that Democrats will help Republicans get over this embarrassment.
“Anybody who's imagining some sort of unity or fusion approach, I think, is probably paying more attention to Aaron Sorkin movies than they are to how this place normally functions,” Johnson, the South Dakota Republican, told reporters on Tuesday.
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