won the week two. all in with chris hayes starts now. l in with chris hayes starts now. good evening from new york. i m chris. hayes i want to get ahead of the story. it appears this long week may be coming to a close and more ways than one. if grading on a curve, strong curve, would be speaker of the house kevin mccarthy had his best day yet today. i should say he still lost two more rounds of votes. he did manage to win over most of his detractors, including some previous hard-liners. and, for the first time, he actually won more votes in the democratic challenger, hakeem jeffries. so, clap. negotiations are still underway. they are adjourned right now when they reconvene just two short hours from now, mccarthy may finally become speaker of the house. they seem confident that is the case. we will see. but based on everything we ve seen, it s obvious, even if mccarthy does clinched the gavel, it will be a victory. this will leave him the weakest speaker in modern polit
of a shared public good that could be put into practice through governing. here s the other thing about it, it s not good politics. it s clear the voters don t like it. they rejected this kind of politics in 2018 in 2020. and most remarkably, especially in 2022, winter mcgrath made appeals for democracy against margaret stream-ism a key component of their election strategy. many candidates who embrace this kind of coup sympathizing troll populism. at least the ones who aren t gerrymandered lost. and often, they ran reliably well behind more conventional republicans. but because of structural advantages and the reality of gravity, republicans still merit managed to narrowly flip the house by the thinnest of margins. which is now where in the current predicament. the most extreme are the key leverage points within this party. they control the party s fate. in order to win, kevin mccarthy has spent the week giving them