to the 15th ballot. that was significant. otherwise kevin mccarthy was not going to win here after wha happened on the 14th ballot. they will announce the vote her there closely. you need 215. it appears he is a little bit higher than that. he should be at 216 because you have 48 casting ballots by name and six present, including matt rosendale who was a lasting vote . they will tally this up and thi will take a few minutes. there sitting at the lower leve and they want to make sure they are in agreement. they will present this to chery johnson and she will announce that there is in fact a speaker that has been selected. that has not been her answer on the previous roll call. will we hear kevin mccarthy
holdouts, on the 15th ballot, all six rebels, including matt gaetz, voted present, assuring the gavel to mccarthy, here is some of what the new speaker had to say afterwards. a commitment for the future that is built on freedom, where children come first and are taught to dream big, because in america dreams can still come true. a commitment for a government that is held accountable. where americans get the answers they want, need and deserve. our system is built on checks and balances, it is time for us to be a check and provide some balance to the presidents policies. now that the marathon is finally over, here are the details on how the vote went down. after the longest
played this brilliantly. yep, this is his 15 minutes of fame, his 15th vote of fame, we re about to hear what matt gates does, does he vote president or does he not. gates? president. over and over again at this point. mccarthy voting presents doesn t change anything now. in fact, now mccarthy, gates voting president doesn t change anything. steve kornacki, but now mccarthy has a cushion. yes, basically mccarthy would have to lose people who have been voting for him on a previous ballot, that is the only thing that changes right now, the gates present vote, that actually means that if everybody else where the votes, there would be 430 total votes, and again, a majority there would be 2:16, and like we have been saying, mccarthy already has, he comes into this ballot,
because it appears they have 230 that s a no they cannot adjourn they have to move forward. can they change votes on that. it s just a time thing. they could but they re now overwhelming the numbers and it looks like they are not going to adjourn, they re going to move to the 15th ballot. they have to wait for the time, even though it says zero zero zero the vote is still open. chad s seeing zero zero zero and votes staying open forever in his time on capitol hill. let me point out news we re getting from gop folks up on the hill that the understanding going into that last vote, the 14th ballot was that boebert from colorado was a yes for mccarthy, and changed to present without telling any of the compatriots, any of the people. and that was a surprise when she went to present. they thought it was still fine, but then the others, crain did not vote present, and so the math didn t work. when gaetz and boebert were
change their vote. so it s possible, on the other hand we ve seen this before. we saw the beginning of the week when they didn t have the votes that we just saw tonight. hold on. let s listen. the exception a nine, the motion is not adopted. for what purpose is the general from arkansas rise? madam third. i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as the speaker of the house. here we go. vote 15 underway. so it s pretty severe to head back to the house. to get the 15th ballot for speaker. you and your democratic colleagues have been consistent, for 212 votes for hakeem jeffries each time. but the other side hasn t been able to do it. do you think 15 votes is gonna do it? we will see. there is a celebratory feel amongst them. so they may have actually succeeded and turning and no