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They all retired or got gerrymandered out by their own party.
This is delicious. There are no good options for McCarthy. 


Adjourn and try to do some more backoffice deals and try again. Needs 218 votes to do that


Keep iterating this same vote over and over and slowly peel off Gop Opposition to eventually get to McCarthy. Oof, brutal "win" for McCarthy. But that is his best case scenario. 


Step aside and let Rs put up another name 218 can get behind. 


It is now a game of chicken. He lost 19 defectors in the first round. He needs 15 to come over to his side. >

Or democrats could try to peel off 6 R's. Sure, it's less likely, but in pure numbers it's in their favor, lol >

What happens in an R controlled congress with a D speaker!? >

Mostly the usual. Speaker puts votes up. People vote. Things happen. It'd be harder to get the votes together to make anything happen but that's all, really. Theoretically, at least. >

Yeah, true.  I'd wonder next about the re-electability of those 6 Rs at that point, but hey - they'd get 2 years to figure something out >

The Dems would probably have to pick one of those 6 to be speaker… it’s not going to be Jeffries. But if we can get someone less extreme and put Dems in more favorable committee assignments then it could still be a good thing. >


But if we can get someone less extreme

The extreme ones are the ones not backing McCarthy >

Sure. But there’s still a lot of Republicans that Dems would prefer a lot better than McCarthy.