{"id":534816,"date":"2023-01-04T07:29:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T04:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mccarthy-floats-path-to-speakership-with-lower-vote-threshold\/"},"modified":"2023-01-04T07:29:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T04:29:51","slug":"mccarthy-floats-path-to-speakership-with-lower-vote-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mccarthy-floats-path-to-speakership-with-lower-vote-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"#McCarthy floats path to Speakership with lower vote threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25da5a65ad4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25da5a65ad4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mccarthy-floats-path-to-speakership-with-lower-vote-threshold\/#McCarthy_floats_path_to_Speakership_with_lower_vote_threshold\" >McCarthy floats path to Speakership with lower vote threshold<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"McCarthy_floats_path_to_Speakership_with_lower_vote_threshold\"><\/span>McCarthy floats path to Speakership with lower vote threshold<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mccarthykevin_121422gn3_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>House GOP Speaker nominee Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) expressed optimism\u00a0about winning the gavel\u00a0Tuesday night\u00a0as he emerged from meetings with allied members following three failed ballots, floating\u00a0the possibility of winning the post with fewer than 218 votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re sitting at 202 votes, so you need technically just 11 more votes to win,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats have 212 votes. You get 213 votes, and the others don\u2019t say another name, that\u2019s how you can win. You can win with 218. You could win with 222. But if you want to look at how you have to go about doing it,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p>A House Speaker is elected by a majority of all those voting for a specific Speaker candidate, not necessarily all members. Those voting \u201cpresent\u201d and those who are absent do not count toward that total, lowering the threshold.<\/p>\n<p>Former House Speakers Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and John Boehner (R-Ohio) each won the Speakership with just 216 votes in 2021 and 2015, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the three Tuesday votes, all 434 members voted in all ballots, putting the majority threshold at 218. In the first and second ballots, McCarthy got 203 votes, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) got 212, and 19 McCarthy opponents voted for other candidates. In the third vote, a 20th member joined the detractors, putting McCarthy at 202.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear, however, how McCarthy could not only win over 11 in the group to vote for him, but get the other nine to not vote for a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) dismissed the strategy of McCarthy getting across the line with \u201cpresent\u201d votes outside a separate meeting in the Capitol with McCarthy allies and detractors in the office of House GOP Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cIf he\u2019s literally trying to patchwork votes together, to scrape together the votes by trying to carve out \u2018present\u2019 votes in hopes that people don\u2019t show up or something, I just don\u2019t see that as the right path to a strong leadership position,\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n<p>Roy also cast strong doubts on the notion that any of the 20 Republicans who opposed McCarthy would play ball and vote \u201cpresent\u201d on Wednesday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely don\u2019t see it,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>McCarthy is also not ruling out trying to get to the 218 votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to get to 218, we have to keep talking,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that most of the rules change and priority issues with the mostly hard-right House Freedom Caucus group have been settled, and that the issue of compromising on the \u201cmotion to vacate\u201d \u2013 a move to force a vote on ousting the Speaker \u2013 was \u201cdone with.\u201d McCarthy agreed to lower the threshold to just five members to bring up the move, down from a majority of the conference.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>McCarthy is remaining defiant in the face of the opposition, saying multiple times that there is not a scenario in which he pulls out of the race for Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a little growth period that we have, but at the end of the day, all of this that we go through will make us stronger,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mike Lillis contributed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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