his attempt to be speaker of this house. this historic fight now surpassing the last time it went to multiple ballots. the prolonged 1923 ballot which was decided on the ninth ballot. this one will not be decided on the ninth ballot. it looks. yet for first time this week, there are some positive signs for the republican leader. they re drawing a line in the sand whether they go to the holdouts. it s not clear a deal will even net kevin mccarthy the total of 218 votes he needs to be speaker. republicans, they say they are firmly in the never kevin mccarthy camp. never. they just have one more house republican continues to join those four, he can only afford to lose four. kevin mccarthy will never wield the speaker s gavel. that is without help from democrats or changing the rules in some way. let s go straight to cnn chief correspondent who is live on capitol hill. we keep hearing progress is being made. progress is being made. kevin mccarthy is well on his way to breaking re
district and did an average. it s r plus 27. you have to translate. so number of republicans over democrats in that specific district that is registered to vote. so cook partisan voting index. the lowest pvi is r plus 15. the high sest r plus 55 which means there is 55% more republicans voting for dhthat candidate than democrats. when the average is r plus 27 for people voting against mccarthy, there is no blowback. it s just like my district. there isn t any blowback. by the way, anybody in an r plus 10 destruct, they could switch the vote now and it won t bother them. when i read the 27 panl sge scr on the fund-raising, he is putting out, there the thing that struck me is the same thing that happened january 6. you have this appeal to righteousness. it s the right thing to do. we have to do it. nothing can change my vote. i m just going to humbly submit, you know, to this esteemed panel, it s going to be very
cases upholding the death penalty more than 40 years ago and i think it s time to revisit the issue. his departure under a democratic president and congress will likely mean the court will remain divided 6-3 in favor of con sefservatconservat. it does give biden a chance to make a historic choice. he pledged to fill any vacancy on the court with an african-american woman, a first. potential candidates include 51-year-old judge brown jackson recently confirmed to serve on the d.c. kir circuit court of appeals. plus 55-year-old michelle child who is is a federal judge in south carolina. more than anything, justice breyer believed in civility gaining a reputation as thoughtful listener and reaching for compromise when ever possible. he was good friends with his ideological opposite, the late
serve on the d.c. circuit court of appeals and 45-year-old associate justice leondra kruger of the california supreme court, plus 55-year-old michelle childs, a federal judge in south carolina. more than anything justice breyer believed in civility, gaining a reputation as a thoughtful listener and reaching for compromise whenever possible. he was good friends with his ideological opposite, the late justice antonin scalia, and believed it was possible to disagree agreeably. there s no reason we can t be friends. there is no reason that human beings cannot differ civilly on matters of great importance. reporter: jessica schneider, cnn, washington. let s continue this discussion. i want to bring back jeffrey toobin and paula reid and abby phillip. paul, i understand you have more on the short list who are some of the women president biden could be reviewing as potential replacements? this is as big as it gets. this is president biden s first
support trump, publicly, he s an embarrassment to them. so that s a problem the other group democrats need to be concerned about, democratic voters, we have a tendency they are paying attention to cable news, reading voraciously about the different candidates and their policy positions. that s not the case. we have to reach out to those people who may not vote in each election, maybe in presidential, or not every presidentials. we have to make sure we are actively reaching out to those groups as well and keep in mind they may not be paying attention to every trump horrible policy initiatives and things that trump is saying. those are the risc, with women the dependser, plus 55 in recent polling that s unheard of. democrats can a not fight over