politico, jonathan lemire. still no speaker. i feel like what we saw yesterday, and we ll talk about that and show members of congress speaking on the floor but we re beginning to really see trump s irrelevance play out. secondly, no speaker new york city swearing in, no house right now. is it beyond embarrassing? is there a danger to this? there s a danger for the republican party, and it really underlines what a lot of people already thought about the republican party, the most important voters in america, the swing voters, independents, former republicans in suburbs in places like atlanta, and philadelphia, people who were republicans their whole life who say this party is whacked out. i can t vote for them anymore. they re surrounded by insurrectionists, weirdos and freaks. there s a great danger for republicans. as far as the rest of the country goes, this too will pass
kevin mccarthy has been laying the groundwork making those negotiations dangling that the prizes like leadership posts and so forth for months now in anticipation of this scenario right now, what will a floor fight look like if he can t get the votes if. the first floor fight is going to be over the rules the conservative caucus within the republican conference, one thing they re insisting on is to the right to depose the speaker at any time, that s a really important fight, why john boehner got deposed, there s some real consideration about whether or not mccarthy can or should accept that if he does they ll basically have a sword over his head every day of his speakership, no speaker wants to have that and that s going to be the first and most meaningful over rules, whether or not with a very slim majority the speaker could be deposed at any time.
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