Speaker of the House Vote Thread

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:McCarthy now has the votes. he will be speaker tomorrow after the first vote

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His a$$. McCarthy clearly doesn't have the votes. He was out there this morning with a harebrained idea that 11 of the 20 would vote for him and the other 9 would abstain from voting. He has no strategy and is just grasping at straws. His only path forward is a deal with Jeffries, or to drop out.

Jeffries would be an idiot to accept any deal. McCarthy can offer him anything he wants, but unless republicans agree to vote for a compromise rules package, it will just be democrats and McCarthy supporting it.

You people actually believe a far left Dem is going to be elected speaker?

No, no one thinks Jeffries will be elected. Work on your reading comprehension.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Byron Donalds, come on down

Byron is a second termer with a bank fraud conviction. Perfect for today’s GOP.

Judging from all the applause, Donalds sounds like he might be a lock.

Glorious!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McCarthy now has the votes. he will be speaker tomorrow after the first vote

Source?

His a$$. McCarthy clearly doesn't have the votes. He was out there this morning with a harebrained idea that 11 of the 20 would vote for him and the other 9 would abstain from voting. He has no strategy and is just grasping at straws. His only path forward is a deal with Jeffries, or to drop out.

Jeffries would be an idiot to accept any deal. McCarthy can offer him anything he wants, but unless republicans agree to vote for a compromise rules package, it will just be democrats and McCarthy supporting it.

You people actually believe a far left Dem is going to be elected speaker?

He's not far left????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McCarthy now has the votes. he will be speaker tomorrow after the first vote

Source?

His a$$. McCarthy clearly doesn't have the votes. He was out there this morning with a harebrained idea that 11 of the 20 would vote for him and the other 9 would abstain from voting. He has no strategy and is just grasping at straws. His only path forward is a deal with Jeffries, or to drop out.

Jeffries would be an idiot to accept any deal. McCarthy can offer him anything he wants, but unless republicans agree to vote for a compromise rules package, it will just be democrats and McCarthy supporting it.

You people actually believe a far left Dem is going to be elected speaker?

No far left Dem has been nominated, so no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McCarthy now has the votes. he will be speaker tomorrow after the first vote

Source?

His a$$. McCarthy clearly doesn't have the votes. He was out there this morning with a harebrained idea that 11 of the 20 would vote for him and the other 9 would abstain from voting. He has no strategy and is just grasping at straws. His only path forward is a deal with Jeffries, or to drop out.

Jeffries would be an idiot to accept any deal. McCarthy can offer him anything he wants, but unless republicans agree to vote for a compromise rules package, it will just be democrats and McCarthy supporting it.

You people actually believe a far left Dem is going to be elected speaker?

I just want to correct the misrepresentation that Jeffries is a "far left" Dem. According to his own words:

"There's a difference between progressive Democrats and hard-left democratic socialists," Jeffries told the Atlantic in 2021. "I'm a Black progressive Democrat concerned with addressing racial and social and economic injustice with the fierce urgency of now. That's been my career, that's been my journey, and it will continue to be as I move forward for however long I have an opportunity to serve. There will never be a moment where I bend the knee to hard-left democratic socialism."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Byron Donalds, come on down

Byron is a second termer with a bank fraud conviction. Perfect for today’s GOP.

Judging from all the applause, Donalds sounds like he might be a lock.

For the MAGA caucus, yes. I predict he won’t take any votes from McCarthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was reading about the 1855 stalemate. They eventually resolved that by voting to change the rules to make it a plurality instead of a majority. I could see that being a path here if they can get Democratic buy-in by giving Jeffries concessions.

They'd only do this if McCarthy had more votes than Jeffries, but not enough to reach 218.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McCarthy now has the votes. he will be speaker tomorrow after the first vote

Source?

His a$$. McCarthy clearly doesn't have the votes. He was out there this morning with a harebrained idea that 11 of the 20 would vote for him and the other 9 would abstain from voting. He has no strategy and is just grasping at straws. His only path forward is a deal with Jeffries, or to drop out.

Jeffries would be an idiot to accept any deal. McCarthy can offer him anything he wants, but unless republicans agree to vote for a compromise rules package, it will just be democrats and McCarthy supporting it.

You people actually believe a far left Dem is going to be elected speaker?

I just want to correct the misrepresentation that Jeffries is a "far left" Dem. According to his own words:

"There's a difference between progressive Democrats and hard-left democratic socialists," Jeffries told the Atlantic in 2021. "I'm a Black progressive Democrat concerned with addressing racial and social and economic injustice with the fierce urgency of now. That's been my career, that's been my journey, and it will continue to be as I move forward for however long I have an opportunity to serve. There will never be a moment where I bend the knee to hard-left democratic socialism."

Does anyone admit to being a “hard left democratic socialist”? Of course not.

[Anonymous]

5th round incoming

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was reading about the 1855 stalemate. They eventually resolved that by voting to change the rules to make it a plurality instead of a majority. I could see that being a path here if they can get Democratic buy-in by giving Jeffries concessions.

They'd only do this if McCarthy had more votes than Jeffries, but not enough to reach 218.

The need enough votes to make the change. The people willing to continue voting against McCarthy aren't going to vote for a rules change that paves the way for him to get elected, and there is no reason for the democrats to give the republicans an easy way out of this.

[Anonymous]

McCarthy needs to drop out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McCarthy now has the votes. he will be speaker tomorrow after the first vote

Source?

His a$$. McCarthy clearly doesn't have the votes. He was out there this morning with a harebrained idea that 11 of the 20 would vote for him and the other 9 would abstain from voting. He has no strategy and is just grasping at straws. His only path forward is a deal with Jeffries, or to drop out.

Jeffries would be an idiot to accept any deal. McCarthy can offer him anything he wants, but unless republicans agree to vote for a compromise rules package, it will just be democrats and McCarthy supporting it.

You people actually believe a far left Dem is going to be elected speaker?

I just want to correct the misrepresentation that Jeffries is a "far left" Dem. According to his own words:

"There's a difference between progressive Democrats and hard-left democratic socialists," Jeffries told the Atlantic in 2021. "I'm a Black progressive Democrat concerned with addressing racial and social and economic injustice with the fierce urgency of now. That's been my career, that's been my journey, and it will continue to be as I move forward for however long I have an opportunity to serve. There will never be a moment where I bend the knee to hard-left democratic socialism."

Does anyone admit to being a “hard left democratic socialist”? Of course not.

GOP and right wing news brand all Democrats as far left.

[Anonymous]

This is really amazing stuff to watch.

We can attribute the R's pickle here to the overturning of Roe last summer.

[Anonymous]

Fred Upton for Speaker

[Anonymous]

And they picked up Donalds.