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No, they aren’t closer to winning the house speaker position as they won’t get a majority of votes.  The next closest is a democrat, and next after that has 12 votes.  He sold out to Trump and all he got was a bunch of larger sellouts to oppose him, and it’s hilarious.
Loyalty to Trump has ended a lot of careers. He is toxic, but then again, so are the people that hitch themselves to his pursuits. >

But aren’t the GOP fraction that voted against him more aligned with Trump?? More far right and now more likely to win the house speaker position?