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sans speaker. kevin mccarthy failing again on a fifth ballot to capture the necessary number of votes, the number of opponents among house republicans has actually gone up from 19 to 20, to 21. now republicans are looking for a way out, an exit strategy. is that tossing mccarthy to the curb? is that brokering a deal with democrats to lower the vote? they have to get these 23 rebels on board. me melanie zanona is with us. what's happening here? >> reporter: republicans are searching for an offramp as it's become clear that kevin mccarthy's efforts to win over his opposition not workin...

For the second day in a row, members of the US House of Representatives failed to elect their new speaker. The incident was the chamber's first in 100 years.

>> jeffries. >> buchanan. mccarthy. buck, -- buck? bouchon. mccarthy. b b budzin ski, jeffries. >> so ken buck as far as we could tell did not vote when his name was called. that's not all that unusual because at the end of the roll call on a vote, they normally go after any strag lers that there might have been. we were watching ken buck because he was a mccarthy supporter and he voted for him five times but he said that was the last time he could count on his vote. i wanted to see if there was continued erosion of mccarthy