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but he s not going to do the deal, not on this roll call. maybe not today. chris jansing, my colleague is going to take over this roll call. watch with steve kornacki. this has been an extraordinary day already. we have another flip here. we knew it was going to be historic. steve kornacki, what did we just seethe? i want to go back to steve. what are we looking at? mary miller from illinois, another one of the holdouts, she also flipping over and voting for mccarthy. that means there have been 13 folk who is have voted against mccarthy previously and now 7 of those 13 have flipped over. so he s actually of the votes cast by previous mccarthy opponents in this roll majority over. he s gotten more than half of them. 7 of the 13 have flipped over. paul gosar will vote at the end. he has seemed pretty dug in, but we ll see what happens there. the next name to come on the list is ralph norman. we re about 15 names away from him. very rapid fire after that. scott perry, ....
The magic number with everybody voting. and that would mean with 220 republicans present on any future vote, mccarthy could afford three defections. so far there are seven. there could be as many as nine. we ll see when they come back around. how does this change the momentum for mccarthy? does it make it significantly or even anymore likely that what dusty johnson will come to pass and will get the votes? the sandwich metaphor has been has everyone thinking about lunch as a possible break when they count these votes. but i think this changes the equation in terms of momentum for mccarthy. what he got in this group that flipped is those who have been best able to describe their policy differences with him. the ones who had specific complaints about the way they thought he might run the house. that s scott perry and chip roy, some of the others who articulated what their complaints are. mccarthy appears to be well on ....