thvin mccarthy is 30 votes shy of the speakership right now. that number will shrink. some republicans oppose recarthy as a protest, but there are a few republicans he may never get , like freedomkev caucus favorite andy biggs. i m sure kevin s going. to get the 218. that s where he and i disagree. and there are reasons thatadersp the american public say we need a change in leadership . activ it s because we ve watched whats has happened when we don ty to actively fight and use everyadma peoplee have to slow down the biden administration. expect that s what people want. and that s what new leadership would be expected to do. mccarthy withdrew fromfore the speaker s race in 2015 the before there was a fight. it s possible the gop may have delayed that brawl for seven years. mccarthy needs an outrighto be majority of the house to become speaker. when the house struggled to elect a speaker in 1849 and 1856, it eventually adopted a resolution to tap a speaker with a simple majority.