that would yield i assume talking about kevin mccarthy votes because the republicans hold a majority and this may put us in a special category. i m wondering what you make of that and whether that is just a trial balloon she s throwing out there that goes way beyond her or whether that is the answer to resolve this impasse. a couple of observations. i talked to members on both sides that said look, if we don t get this resolved, we will put together some sort of coalition. because it s obvious that kevin mccarthy may not be able to win. that s the first thing. the second thing is i think marcy captor might be a special case. the reason, she was first elected in 1982. she s the most senior woman to ever serve in the house of representatives. she s an appropriator. she serves on the appropriations committee. she s never chaired the appropriations committee. she s a pro life democrat. so you might see someone like marcy captor who has been in congress for 40-plus years and has never g
break. whether it s tonight, tomorrow, friday. we ll see. that s where they will start to get results. they ll say this is not working. people get tired. people get angry. at some point people will say look, we have to change this. the other thing that kevin mccarthy has demonstrated repeatedly, you cannot change the parliamentary physics here. we know what the rules are. what his vote matrix is not lining with that. he s not getting there and somebody has to say look, you re not the guy. so if a that has not happened and he s not been willing to drop out yet. neil: not yet. chad did mention ro khanna, the call democratic congressman. we re lucky enough to have him with us right now. good to see you, sir. you heard about marcy captor of ohio where she entertained crossing party lines to get this thing resolved presumably vote for kevin mccarthy. would you? neil, i would consider the
facing not just kevin mccarthy right now but will at some points face hakeem jeffries. i talked about the staring contest. there s actually a staring contest going on on the democratic side, too. is anybody going to break if they get to a coalition government or if they have a coalition speaker. nobody has been willing to break so far. 212 every single time. so who is going to break there? would it be somebody like marcy captor? there was some suggestions a few weeks ago that ro khanna, a democrat from california, might be willing to break and vote for a republican if it was the right coalition. nobody be is there just yet. right now the democrats are more than happy to sit on their hands and let the republicans duke this out. at what point does this hit a breaking point? i talked about those tensions in the chamber. i talked about the increased heckling back and forth. some raised voices in the house chamber. tempers are starting to flare. at some point that dam will
it. no. and i talked with a republican last night involved in the elections who made the point hopefully republicans take away from this election that actually that trump-fueled candidates are no good. i mean, they lost very winnable seats in ohio against marcy captor, in a new district in north carolina in beau hines, in new hampshire, all trump-inspired, fumed, or endorsed candidates. i just think that it s resounding how much of a difference that makes. and you see people like mike lawler in upstate new york who s distanced himself from trump, who beat john patrick maloney. so chalk one up for the middle of the conference and just the coming clash between that wing, the mtg, to use short hand, wing, and the moderate, more traditional republican wing, is going to be epic because the mtg wing lost in this election. those candidates did not win. they had a tough time and they lost winnable districts for republicans. all right. co-founder of punchbowl news,
battleground desk about which votes are being counted. we need to be careful in every state. there are some big population areas in in that district. this is a democratic plus shy of seven. joe biden won the district we just showed you here by 18 points. you move out into exurbia, spanberger losing at the moment. this is a gap here. we need more votes. 31%. this one is shaping up as a bigger race in a district that s an even district, joe biden wins by shy of two points and remember, you know, this is according the new lines of how the districts have been drawn. if you think of the imp list way to look at the map, the republicans need a net gain of five and they are leading in two in virginia. it s not over. we are still counting votes. leading two there. if you look at some of the others, this a fascinating race here, marcy captor, one the