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. . temperatures the longest speaker contest in 164 years, but before it ended, the house floor turned into a stage for some stunning political drama, the 14th vote should have been the clincher as mccarthy and his allies thought they had the votes in the bag, but florida congressman matt gaetz waited until the very end of the balloting process to vote present, even though mccarthy needed just one more yes vote to win. mccarthy appeared stunned and walked up the house floor to confront matt gaetz himself. mccarthy walked away dejected. it almost came to blows. armed services committee chairman mike rogers appears to suddenly lunge at gaetz and had to be physically restrained by a fellow republican. this looked like the end of the line for mccarthy. in those final moments, kevin mccarthy found a breakthrough with matt gaetz. republicans quickly changed the vote to adjourn and then held the decisive 15th vote for speaker and gavel in hand, mccarthy administered the oath of of

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