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house minority leader hakeem jefferys. happy new year to you. happy new year to you, my friend. absolutely. i want to welcome everybody to the beat, and i wish you a happy new year as well on our first show of 2023. so, thank you for starting the new year with us. now, we are already tracking new developments tonight. i have a special report coming up about the pressure on d.o.j. to act on the evidence that is in that lengthy january 6th report which dropped heading into the holiday period. while our stop story is the election eve, of sorts, in washington. democrats expanding their power in the senate and republicans taking over the house where the faces of each caucus leader here actually reveal a lot about the state of these parties. hakeem jeffries replacing nancy pelosi with a show of democratic unity, while republican kevin mccarthy is in the fight of his career as his own close allies now find it hard to see a path for him to win tomorrow. mccarthy facing ....
Career as his own close allies now find it hard to see a path for him to win tomorrow. mccarthy facing down reporters today and predicting that when it s all said and done tomorrow, it will be a good day. leader mccarthy, do you have the votes for speaker tomorrow? mccarthy, do you have the votes for speaker locked in tomorrow? i think we ll have a good day tomorrow. reporter: what are your conversations like with matt? have you come here to make more concessions? i hope you all have a very nice week. we wish everyone a happy new year s as well. you can see that s what it s like in congress, especially if you re in this position. you re tracked down. everybody wants to know the answers to those questions. to be clear, there s no major figure that s rivaling mccarthy to get, say, majority support. there s a protest challenge by congressman biggs, and then ....
Hits that magic number of 218 seats. mccarthy would be the nominee, the party nominee for house speaker. you would have another vote then. and in the senate today the same rangeling over leadership unfolding as senate republicans meet behind closed doors to vote on who will hold top positions in that chamber. florida s rick scott does plan to challenge mitch mcconnell. it will be mcconnell s first challenge in a decade and a half of leadership. so the big question here, will that challenge work? cnn s melanie zanona is live on capitol hill this morning. chances that it is not mitch mcconnell? reporter: well, look, let me start by saying that by all accounts mitch mcconnell is securing his job. this is largely a protest challenge. we re hearing rick scott might only get half a dozen or so republicans, but the fact that mitch mcconnell is even facing a challenger for the first time ever since he s been leader of the republican party in the ....
Crucial contests for this race. clinton won new hampshire in 2008 and had been looking good there. the bernie momentum had been rooted in the crowds he s drawn. less on the number of potential votes and polling that he might have. new hampshire polling, for example, look at this. showed clinton was beating sanders, 47-8 in march. in may he inched up. by last week, he was within striking distance of hillary clinton. now, today, this self-proclaimed democratic socialist who is largely seen as a protest challenge. that guy, that guy is now in first place. he is 7 points ahead of hillary clinton in new hampshire in this new poll. maybe hillary clinton will continue to allow this bernie momentum to play out without directly acknowledging it until she homes it may eventually die down. but bernie s ground game is so strong. he drew the most special compliment you can get from trump. trump is now comparing his ....
When people have talked about his appeal and momentum, they re mostly citing those crowds. not voters, not polls until now. iowa and new hampshire are crucial contests for this race. clinton won new hampshire in 2008 and had been looking good there. the bernie momentum had been rooted in the crowds he s drawn. less on the number of potential votes and polling that he might have. new hampshire polling, for example, look at this. showed clinton was beating sanders, 47-8 in march. in may he inched up. by last week, he was within striking distance of hillary clinton. now, today, this self-proclaimed democratic socialist who is largely seen as a protest challenge. that guy, that guy is now in first place. he is 7 points ahead of hillary clinton in new hampshire in this new poll. ....