they ve got everything that they want it essentially. they are out of moderates who may not want to move forward with this. and as ryan just said, that may play out in the passage of the rules package, so it govern mccarthy becomes speaker, we still got about three or four hours in front of us of work that congress has to do tonight that might not get done. and indeed, they won t have been i mean, there is the swearing in that has to happen. the opportunities for this to get delayed, for congress to still not be seated and functioning in the way that we have sort of gotten used to it functioning our myriad. and i think, as ryan rightfully points out, it s precedent. what we ve seen over the course of the last four days is very much a taste of what may be to come for the months, if not years ahead. all right, that part doesn t in tonight, alex. thanks very much. have yourself a great weekend. we ll see you next week! thanks, ali. good luck tonight. u next wand it is st
particularly desantis has nominated another candidate. in some cases, someone just stands up and vote for another candidate, which is how donald trump s name got placed the other day. let s go back to steve kornacki. steve, we were talking about the fact that there are six votes against mccarthy on the 13th ballot. we have information from information that two of them are being targeted by the mccarthy people, possible swings, eli queen of arizona, matt rosendale of montana. and we ve also heard some stuff about math gaetz and lauren boebert, seeing relatively complimentary things about kevin mccarthy tonight. yeah, well, the voting now is underway, just so folks know. it is a pretty established, just about how everybody is voting. the first suspenseful vote here is going to be the 26th name called. you call about five right now. andy biggs, one of the holdouts, it s gonna be the 26th name called. and then, about six spots later,