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Not going to be that easy for mccarthy trying to wrangle the votes to get to 218. he seems confident but the opponents are equally confident he won't get there. >> do you think you'll have 218 coming to the floor? would you step down in the race? >> no. we will have 218. i'll get there. >> he won't be speaker. he won't get to 218. i hope he will say and recognize for the good of the country and the party and congress i'll pull myself out. >> won't be easy and republicans think they will have multiple ballots on this. >> it is a math problem made worse by the jafact that the majority is small. ...

Needs 218. but this is why mccarthy's team spent so much money and effort to build a quote governing majority to push the folks that are detractors to the side to get the votes to be speaker and to pass an agenda. this is going to be the real challenge going forward looking at a majority with 221, 222 seats and can only lose 4 or 5 seats. there's time between now and january 3rd with promises made. perhaps pick up some votes. maybe some ways the promise to change business. they want more power over the speakership. there are negotiations to vote present instead of no. that lowers the threshold...