it s maga plus plus. i don t know we have to come up with a new name. they call themselves ultra. give joe biden credit for mega maga. he did ultra maga. that s one of the reasons. they want more mega maga in congress. they don t want kevin mccarthy going in there and picking a more establishment if you take a step back and look at the makeup of the house, the democrats and the republicans, they have very gerrymandered very solidly blue, solidly red districts for the most part. in these red districts, whoever wins the primary wins the seat. so that s why who plays in these primaries is the ball game for these republicans. you are exactly right, they want to have more like-minded republicans who end up in congress.
this independent leadership pac goes out there and gives money to incumbent republicans in races. what the rebels and the club for growth, which is a koch brothers organization that s maga right now, what they wanted is a pledge from the mccarthy-backed super pac, not only should you you can back incumbent republicans, but if there s an open seat in a republican district, don t play at all. why? tell me why. because they feel that they are at a disadvantage with money and in every other way politically in these campaigns when they are up against a from their point of view, an establishment group that has a ton of money and has a ton of influence. when i use the pronounce they, i m talking about like in many of the cases, like-minded republican candidates, like-minded to the boeberts of the world. maga caucus.
conservatism. i think he s not named kevin mccarthy. if his name came up, members would vote for him because it s an easy way to get rid of mccarthy and have another candidate i don t think scalise is going to have an easier time. but he is more the fact you talk to house republicans. they really value the talking point that he was shot as a badge of credibility for scalise. against this idea of democratic extremism. they want to have this argument that the extremism is on both sides. that incident with scalise is huge. we should be careful not to poe l politicize it too much. he handled that with such grit and such grace in the aftermath. i think he earned a lot of respect from people on both
near the number that they need. if they lose the vote by five or ten, it doesn t matter. they lose in either case. it sounds like they are making progress. it sounds like chip roy and maybe a few others are coming mccarthy s way. we will see. we don t know. i don t know if there s any agreement. they haven t announced it publically. they are negotiating. we will see how far they get between now and noon tomorrow. i want to go to manu. we get the name of the four republicans voting against, who did vote against this motion to adjourn until noon tomorrow. that includes congressman andy biggs, lauren boebert, matt gaetz and elijah crane. one of the 20 voting against kevin mccarthy. four of the opponents of mccarthy voted against adjourning. it s unclear where some of the other opponents are. it s unclear if good missed the vote. we will get a sense of what
they all understood the politics of the situation and knew that being on board with the rest of the team would give them more benefits. the republicans are not they are not going that route. i don t think that s going to change. it s not just about republicans, anderson. there s something specific to kevin mccarthy as a figure, as a singular figure, versus a nancy pelosi. i don t know if there s a nancy pelosi of the right, of the republican party. it certainly isn t kevin mccarthy. by that i mean, somebody who can unify the party and be feared. yeah. nancy pelosi certainly was feared and was able to instill fear in others and get results based on that. i want to check in with melanie who is getting more information about who kevin mccarthy was meeting with. what do we know? in addition to the negotiations involving chip roy and some of mccarthy s allies, i m told kevin mccarthy has met with a group of freshmen