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
then if everybody else does vote, then there will be a total of 433 votes cast. now, remember, on the final ballot last time around, mccarthy got 214. it was 212 for hakeem jeffries. and then, there were six who didn t vote. now, wesley hunt, we believe, is in the building. is the other pro-mccarthy member who missed the earlier votes. so, that will bring mccarthy up to her 215. we already have, as we say, one present vote from lauren boebert. okay, so what that does, that means, at this point, there will be 432 total votes cast. that will set the magic number at 217, and again, at 215. mccarthy would need help from these final three. he would need either to get two of them to vote for him, or he could get one of them to vote for him. and again, another present vote. or you can even get,