your team point out, there s a lot of scar tissue built up between kevin mccarthy and some of these other members. how does that make a difference here? it makes a difference because it s nice to have another voice that s not mccarthy talking to these people. the people who he has tapped, patrick mchenry chief among them, have very deep experience in doing things like that. he was the chief deputy whip under steve scalise in the drama between him and kevin mccarthy that s dominated so much of the last decade of house republican politics. at times, scalise and mccarthy rivals. so what they are trying to do is trying to find out if a deal is possible. and then if they find out a deal is possible, they could then try to sell it to the broader conference, which is sick of giving in to the 10% of republicans that the
members of this 20 holdouts think should have been held out, think should have been forc dow. scalise is perhaps too close. hudson probably too green. emmer, maybe, sure, somebody who has the skills perhaps but it s just not there. you know, i m working through the list in my head here, and the folks who have the skills have also kind of looked around and said i don t want this. patrick mchenry is a good example. he s somebody who s been around a long time, has been in leadership, was the chief deputy whip, i believes in the previous congress for republicans and looked around at the landscape and said i think i d rather be a committee chair. i don t want to have anything tad with this. that s going to be a real, real challenge, don t just come back and say, good, we figured this out. it s a mess even without mccarthy. david, you said it yesterday,
make this last pitch, which is what do you need? what can i give you? how can i become speaker? this will be the defining moment of his career tonight behind closed doors. there s a possibility they push it to tomorrow morning at 10:00. the denny hastert scenario is this. including myself have moved to the scalise hudson question. can one of the other members of leadership move up. in 99, i was actually working in the house when newt gingrich resigned. bob livingston of louisiana was the consensus pick and the night before the vote, larry flint published a scandal story about bob and he couldn t do it. there was nobody else there who could get 218. hastert was six or eight down the line. the chief deputy whip. in today s parliament, i think that s patrick mchenry of north
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