and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of a history lesson here. compare this to any other time in modern history. any other time in modern history there is none because,, the last time the speaker s vote went past one ballot was 1823, but, we will come right back to this, but just to put in some perspective, what the history of this is, you are looking at here, this is every speakers race in history, that s gone past one ballot. we put this together earlier, only 11 ballots, this is the 15th ballot, so right here in history is where the speakers race ranks, this is the fifth longest speakers race in the history of the country, and you can see the four that were longer than this were all pre civil war, this is going to finish well shy of a record of 133 minutes, if it does indeed finish here, 15 ballots will be the fifth longest in american history, and again we haven t seen this go p
played this brilliantly. yep, this is his 15 minutes of fame, his 15th vote of fame, we re about to hear what matt gates does, does he vote president or does he not. gates? president. over and over again at this point. mccarthy voting presents doesn t change anything now. in fact, now mccarthy, gates voting president doesn t change anything. steve kornacki, but now mccarthy has a cushion. yes, basically mccarthy would have to lose people who have been voting for him on a previous ballot, that is the only thing that changes right now, the gates present vote, that actually means that if everybody else where the votes, there would be 430 total votes, and again, a majority there would be 2:16, and like we have been saying, mccarthy already has, he comes into this ballot,