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Martha's avatar

It wouldn't surprise me to see a number of Democrats to vote "present", which would take away the ability of the five holdouts to block McCarthy for Speaker...

From the url below: "As Glassman noted, there are some options for the members to break a long-lasting deadlock, including some members voting “present” to lower the number of votes needed for a majority."

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-democrats-rcna62141

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Sunnydaze's avatar

Well of course! Why on earth would voting be cut and dry 🤦🏼‍♀️ when there are ways around making the votes count. 🙄 I just lost the last 1% of hope I had that Mcarthy wouldn’t be selected in. 😒

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