Multiple members emerged from the House GOP’s speaker forum on Tuesday saying they don’t see either candidate being any closer to having the votes needed to secure the gavel on the floor.
Driving the news: “No one is close to 217,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) said after Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La) and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) pitched members on why they believe they should be the next speaker.
Wasn’t there a handful of R’s serving in Biden-winning districts? Rather than worrying about getting primaried, they’re probably clinging to the delusion of partisan cohesion even as they look the corpse of that very concept in its cold, dead eyes.