these trump-allied running back defectors, no? listen, it s a good sign for kevin mccarthy, the fact that he was having a little bit a tepid response to mccarthy s speakership bid and not that endorsement and taking that extra action of actually receiving phone calls, taking phone calls, trying to put get these folks on board with him. it s a big signal to mccarthy that the former president wants him to do it. i think the big question is, does it matter? will it be a deciding factor for these 20 republicans? that s the thing we don t know. i think the other thing we really don t know is, are they going to just come in and go into recess again, which is a possibility that we ve been hearing, and will be something that we re going to watch closely. if nothing has changed in the overnight matter in terms of mccarthy being able to get some momentum here, do they just push off this vote one more hours
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saying, hey, get through this vote. make sure jeffries doesn t become speaker. but that s the math. 11 republicans voting present and then every democrat continuing to vote for jeffries. this, by the way, the democratic unity on this, that s the other variable, it sounds like an easy thing. this is the first time in more than a decade you had a speaker vote where every democrat has been present and every democrat has been voting for the democratic candidate for speaker. you haven t seen a couple democrats voting present, abstaining, casting symbolic votes for others. and that s crucial to the map that democrats continue to do this from their standpoint. that they all show up, stay in the chamber and vote for jeffries. because if even a handful of democrats get fed up with this for whatever reason and start voting present or start leaving the chamber, again, it has that same effect of lowering the threshold and gives mccarthy more wiggle room.