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
vote kicks off. so, the last vote that was taken, mccarthy ended with 214 votes. there were 212 votes for hakeem jeffries, the democrat, and then there were these six, the republican holdouts who refused to vote for kevin mccarthy. they all casts the name of jim jordan in the last round of voting. now, two things to keep in mind. there is the six holdouts. the other variable is that there were two republican members, wesley hunt and ken buck, who are missing today, who were both mccarthy supporters, who were coming back. it s the reason for holding this vote late this evening. it is to get them to come back, presumably, they are there, and ready to vote for mccarthy. if so, that would give him 216. now, if they are there, and of all the democrats are there, if everybody is present, as has generally been the case here, that means there s gonna be a total of 434 members in the chamber. if they all vote for somebody, that means the magic number is 218, right? because half of 434 s 217.