the second ballot, then steve scalise is going to fall in line, and that is up to him. that is what you heard, jake, from the mccarthy allies is that they never had a backup plan, and in fact, you have an awkward situation on the floor where you have jim jordan nominating jim jordan nominating kevin mccarthy who says that he does not want the job, and repeatedly said that he does not want the job, and he would not have the votes, and this is what the moderates have told me, and so who else is going to be getting this job? they are short 19 votes, but it is not necessarily that he would not get nothing, and in fact, it is true that the others may not have the vote either. and steve scalise is somebody they could rally around, and it is what manu raju and i and
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present for the speaker of the house of the 118th caucus from the state of new york hakeem jeffries, and we will once again be unified in our support for him. [ applause ] for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? to nominate a candidate for speaker of the house. the gentleman is recognized. well, sometimes we have to do jobs that we don t really want to do, and sometimes we have to do jobs that we are called to do and so my colleagues, i rise to nominate the most talented, hardest working member of the republican conference who just gave a speech with more vision than we have ever heard from the alternative. i am nominating jim jordan is humble perhaps today humbled to a fault, and maybe the right
that this has not happened in a century, and when it happened in 1923, the speaker ultimately was elected. that has gone to nine ballots, and that has not been lost on kevin mccarthy. and he said that the candidate who had the most votes became the speaker in the ninth round, and this is why they plan to grind it out going forward. the republicans who are part of the opposition group are all aligning themselves behind jim jordan behind the pleas to support kevin mccarthy, and eight republicans supporting congressman jordan and we expect that number to grow to 19. now, what is going to happen on the third ballot, and that is the third question, and as long as kevin mccarthy is in this race, and no viable alternative is going to emerge, and this is the reality on the house floor, and there are people who are not
extremes, they are saying opposite. they are telling mccarthy, do not give up. when you are looking at mccarthy s leadership team, it is not centrist team, and you are looking will at people pretty much for the right, and you could argue to the right and now, let s listen in. jim jordan. mccarthy. just keeping an eye, okay, jordan voted for mccarthy. so, how long can mccarthy keep the hey, it s over, and i don t know what the answer is. i am not sure anyone does because any one of them i think could be that person to go to him and it may not be them who has their name put up in a nomination but how they decide that i think could determine how the rest of this