of this vote. and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of the history lesson here? compare this to any other time in modern history? any other time in modern history there is none, because the last time the speaker s vote went past one ballots was 1823. but, we will come back to this board. but to put you in some s perspective what the history of this is. you re looking at here, this is every speakers race in history gone past one ballot. we ll put this past today when there were only 11 ballots. so this is the 15th ballots. right here in history is where the speakers race ranks. is the 15th longest and you can see, there for longer than this were all pre civil war. this is gonna finish well shy of a record of 133. but if it does indeed finish here. 15 ballots will be the fifth longest in american history. and we haven t seen this go past the first ballot since back in 1923. there wer
believe i m saying, this but matt gates has played this brilliantly. the app, this is his 15 minutes of fame, his 15 votes of frame. let s hear about what matt gates does, does he vote present or does he not? gaetz? president. over and over again at this point. mccarthy voting present doesn t change anything now. in fact, now, mccarthy against voting present doesn t change anything. but now mccarthy has a cushion? yeah, basically, mccarthy would have to lose people who have been voting for him on the previous ballots. that s the only thing that could change it right now, the gaetz present vote. actually means that if anyone elsewhere to vote it would be 430 total votes, and again, a majority there would be to 16. and like we ve been saying, mccarthy also has this ballots