we are together. they ve sat there, they have laughed and they have chuckled and pointed fingers at us. you know what? as my friend from florida just said, we re together. neil: well, not quite all together right now. the 20 that are resisting kevin mccarthy remain about that now. we re about the halfway point of a ninth vote to see who will lead the house of representatives. looks like for the ninth time in a row, kevin mccarthy is going to have to suit up for number 10. that is if we get to a number 10. under others there, you can see 11 votes for someone other than kevin mccarthy. keep in mind the republican leader can shed no more than four of his republican colleagues. in this vote, as in the prior eight, he has failed to do so. chad pergram has the latest from capitol hill. chad? neil, this is the longest speaker election since 1923. the house is now taking the ninth vote for speaker. it must go to a tenth. the goal was for kevin mccarthy to move the dial today. p
our job is not to coronate the biggest fund raiser or rubber stamp the status quo or keep on going along to get along. it s to use our votes. to elect a speaker who will enable us to get our country back on track. neil: when we eventually decide on that person. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. the showdown to decide who will become the need leader goes into a sixth vote that for the republican leader right now, kevin mccarthy, it s the same old story. a political grounds hog day that yields the same results with every vote. etch though we don t have the sixth round of voting done, we can already know by seeing those under the others category that kevin mccarthy has failed yet again to get the votes he needed. you can t afford to lose more than 4. with each and every voted, he s lost that many and more. it could be as low as 19 and as high as 20. no matter how you slice it, he s coming up zero. chad pergram on capitol hill with more on this and where this goes now. c
credible job to lead us back that way is my friend from florida, the honorable byron donalds who i m pleased and proud to nominate as the next speaker of the house of representatives. [applause] reading clerk will call the roll.
the honorable byron donalds from the state of florida has received 17. [applause] the honorable kevin hern from the state of oklahoma has received three. with one recorded as present. no member elect having received a majority of the votes cast of speaker has not been elected. for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? madam clerk, i rise to nominate kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house. [applause] the gentleman is recognized. thank you, madam clerk.
he steps on the gas. he s from arizona, he can t get a car out of the snow. and the wheels spin some more. we are watching wheels spin on a car stuck in snow and not going anywhere. sandra: speaking of andy biggs, republican from arizona, nominated byron donalds for the eighth ballot and says it s not dysfunction, but an exchange of ideas. here he was. ok. i ll tell you what he said. he said you know what this is, it s dysfunction and it s not imperilling. it s an exchange of ideas, expression of support for people. you want to be your leader in the next congress, i think it s incredibly healthy to see what we are doing on the floor. to that point, you might have heard a bit of that. some people are enjoying watching the process, ari, we don t always get to see this, but it is a lot of drama unfolding, and a lot of tension that we have all seen play out very publicly there in