.GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy acknowledges he's short on votes for speaker, prepares for floor vote battle
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy acknowledged that he did not have the 218 votes needed to get him the speaker’s gavel during a fiery closed-door conference meeting in which he sparred with his conservative defectors, who asserted that nothing has changed just ahead of the start of floor proceedings on Tuesday.
McCarthy stated he knows he is short on the support needed on the first ballot while sparring with Roy, saying, “Oh yeah, 20 of you are against me, I know, I’ve heard it all,” the source said. McCarthy argued that he gave critics the majority of the concessions they demanded, having agreed to bring the threshold for the motion to vacate the chair, a mechanism used to oust a sitting speaker, down to five.
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