will never vote for you, among the republicans? no, i think we can get there. do you plan to go to conference? are you worried about losing votes from moderates? everybody is involved, and they had to get there completely. mr. mccarthy can i finish his answer first to his question? look, this is a new thought that that we will have to have. we have a five seed majority, so it s not one side will get more than the other. it s the entire conference will have to learn how to work together. it s better that we got through this process right now, so we can achieve the things that we want to achieve for the american public, what our commitment was. so at this takes longer and is not me that, and that is okay, because it s not how you start, it s how you finish. if you finish well, we will be very successful. you put to go to conference, mr. mccarthy? you ve been doing this for two months, why would it not be sorted out before generator. mr. mccarthy, do plan to go to co
be the largest in 97 years. i m really looking at what is that final number? can we get a strong enough majority that we can govern strongly. we re gonna win the majority. and it s not gonna be a five c majority. oh. so close on that too late parlay there. it s right that they won the majority. but it now looks like mccarthy will probably have exactly a five seed majority, when all is said and done. so, now the parties, fringes like matt, gates and there s a lot of them dozens of them. they will in a more missile them out of leverage. they re part of what has become the, never, kevin caucus. kevin mccarthy needs 218 votes to be the elected speakers during next months he s expected to have 222 house republicans meaning he will not be able to survive more than a handful of defectors from his own party, just for. mccarthy, if he doesn t get
one. we will see when a bit. arizona senator kiersten sinema has rocked the party with the decision to leave the party and register as an independent. will not affect the balance of power in the senate, or will it? kevin corke s life in and the nations p-uppercase-letter good evening. as our friending congressional groomers has on capitol hill that math is the math is the math it really is a numbers game to get anything done in congress and just as democrats were celebrating getting up 50 seed majority, comes his announcement that sending shockwaves to the world from the arizona senator, kiersten cinema. with the title up independen as a reflection of who i have always been. hard to argue with that. while sinema was a key vote for democrats helping to pez gun control legislation and the
play by the rules. by folks who are literally trying to print out democracy every day. so i have no problem with democrats doing a little bit to bolster a fringe candidate on the republican side. sure michael, last question to you, the washington post is listed five reasons the democrats could defy history in the midterms were putting them up on the screen for everybody. gop extremism better republican candidates we talked about that. abortion in the supreme court. the economy and trump. the latest developments making the midterms less clear cut? no, i mean with all due respect to the author of that column, i think that s ludicrous. there is no way the world democrats are going to maintain the majority in the house. there is a five seed majority, histories on the side of republicans. if you look at every single focus group from both sides, you look at all the internal polling results. it seems very clear that republicans are not going to regain control of the house. the senate is