Glad to be mostly wrong. Even most Dems weren’t too optimistic if they were being honest. We’re still gonna lose the House.
Depending on how this finalizes, this could be amazingly epic.
If it's within 5 votes, MTG and her crazies will be able to demand massive concessions from McCarthy if he wants to be speaker. If it really drags on, one of two things could happen...
1) McCarthy offers some form of concession to a handful of moderate democrats to push him into the speaker's seat in order to not have to deal with MTG
2) Some ambitious second tier republican brokers a deal with 212 democrats and 6 republicans to be elected speaker.
Even if McCarthy does a deal with MTG, he's going to be constantly under that group's thumb. It will be insanely epic and make the Republicans look like utter fools rolling into 2024.
Get your popcorn