The real test of McCarthy’s Speakership bid comes at $218$ votes in the House of Representatives (and he may not be the real test)

While McCarthy is not worried about any challengers and only needs a simple majority during that vote to become the GOP’s speaker nominee – the real test would come in January when he would need 218 votes on the floor – the likely challenge from Biggs could expose how McCarthy is currently short of 218 votes and open up uncomfortable conversations about why an oft-promised “red wave” never materialized.

“We need to have a real discussion about whether he should be the speaker,” Biggs, who was in Washington, DC, last week for House Freedom Caucus meetings, told reporters. I think we should have a candid discussion about where we go in the future.

Boebert said that it was a red line for her and not everyone in the Freedom Caucus is in favor of making that a hard line.

Tensions within the party have been created by the group pushing for concessions from McCarthy. Said one senior GOP lawmaker: “They are a bunch of selfish, prima dona a**holes who want attention for themselves. They are trading effectiveness for the warm embrace of their social media followers.”

McCarthy has been working the phones for months to get support from across the conference, and he got the endorsement of Donald Trump on Monday. And two would-be challengers, Reps. Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise, have lined up behind his speakership bid.

CNN has yet to project which party will have control of the House of Representatives, though as of Friday morning, CNN has projected that Republicans have 211 seats to Democrats’ 198.

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Norman said the group hopes to formalize a lengthier list of all the rules changes they are seeking. They want to delay the internal leadership elections but there is no word on if McCarthy will do so.

When asked whether McCarthy should get credit for delivering the majority, Norman responded: “The taxpayers that voted the representatives in deserve the credit.”

One member said McCarthy didn’t have a chance of earning his vote. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida said on his podcast that not only was McCarthy not his first choice to lead, he was not “even in my top 100”.

Gaetz said that they shouldn’t start the C team with a slim majority. We need to place our stars in a position to shine brighter so that we can draw more people to our policies.

Nancy Pelosi, the current House speaker, has not yet made a decision about her next move. There is much speculation in Washington about if she will run again for the top leadership spot for House Democrats or whether she will step aside as a new generation of potential leaders waits in the wings.

Yes, of course. Well, you know that I’m not asking anybody – People are campaigning, and that’s a beautiful thing,” the California Democrat told Bash. “And I’m not asking anyone for anything. My members are asking for me to consider doing that. Let’s just get through the election.

We will be in a presidential election and a lot is at stake. The decision will once again be dictated by the wishes of my family and caucus. But none of it will be very much considered until we see what the outcome of all of this is. And there are all kinds of ways to exert influence.”

When asked if she believes House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy has what it takes to be House speaker if Republicans win the chamber, Pelosi said she wants to see the results of the election first.

Let’s get through the election, okay? They haven’t won yet. They’ve been measuring the draperies, they’ve been putting forth an agenda. They haven’t won it yet. After the election is concluded, depending on who was in the majority, there’ll be judgments made within their own party, in our own parties, as to how we go forward,” Pelosi said.

Why do I make a judgement about something that may or may not happen? She didn’t think he had it. “But that’s up to his own people to make a decision as to how they want to be led or otherwise.”

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“I’m very proud of our Democratic candidates, both the incumbents seeking reelection and our red-to-blue – our challengers,” Pelosi said, adding later: “Who would have thought two months ago that this red wave would turn into a little tiny trickle, if that at all.”

Bash asked if the attack on her husband had an impact on the election. Paul Pelosi was attacked in the couple’s San Francisco home late last month and needed surgery to repair a skull fracture and injuries to his hand and arm that were sustained during the attack.

It wasn’t just the attack. Nancy Pelosi said that it was the Republican reaction that was despicable. Imagine what my husband and I are going through as the target and the traumatic effect of it on our family.

She said the trauma was intensified by the disrespectful attitude the Republicans gave to it.

“Each day takes us closer to recovery. She said he is doing well, comforted by the good wishes and also the prayers of many people throughout the country. “We thank them all for that. And again, so many who said, ‘I’m going to be sure to vote because this has gone too far.’”

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Across the Capitol, Republicans are questioning their leadership on issues such as abortion, a lack of a cohesive message on abortion, and decisions to spend resources in deep blue territory late in the game.

Both McConnell and McCarthy are moving full steam ahead with their planned leadership elections this week, and the Senate GOP will also meet Tuesday for its weekly closed-door lunch, where the internal blame game is sure to heat up.

GOP sources familiar with the matter told CNN on Sunday that a former chairman of the pro-Trump House Freedom Caucus is looking at mounting a challenge to McCarthy. McCarthy’s team has been prepared for this possibility.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott, the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is among those calling for a delay in the Senate leadership election scheduled for Wednesday, saying it “doesn’t make any sense” to have them this week.

“A lot of people have called me to see if I’ll run,” Scott said. I want to know if we still need to win Georgia. I will not remove anything from the table.

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Meanwhile, Trump aides and allies have been privately critical of Tom Emmer, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, amid the GOP’s underwhelming midterm gains, especially on the House side. CNN has not yet projected which party will control the lower chamber, though Republicans appear on track to gain a narrow House majority. Emmer is competing against Rep. Jim Banks, an ally of Donald Trump Jr., for the position of House GOP whip.

Behind the scenes, the finger pointing has already begun, and those conversations are likely to accelerate as the full House and Senate return to Washington this week for the first time since the midterm elections.

Trump and his allies tried to make McConnell the fall guy for the GOPs lackluster performance in the elections, accusing him of spending recklessly in states where Republicans faced significant challenges at the expense of candidates in more competitive contests.

There is a high correlation between large losses and candidates from the same political party, claims retiring Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey. “I think my party needs to face the fact that if fealty to Donald Trump is the primary criteria for selecting candidates, we’re probably not going to do really well.”

McConnell and Scott have also been publicly at odds all election cycle when it comes to strategy, with McConnell sounding the alarm about candidate quality while Scott opted to take a hands-off approach in the primaries.

When pressed on whether he would challenge McConnell for the top spot, Scott didn’t rule it out — even though he would have little chance of succeeding.

GOP lawmakers think that McCarthy will not cut deals with conservatives until the internal leadership elections are over. However, even that poses some risks for McCarthy, who also can’t afford to lose any of the lawmakers in the middle.

A senior Republican said that moderates and HFC can’t be appeased at the same time. “If you straddle that fence, you better hope it’s not barbed wire.”

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Sources said that Trump and McCarthy have spoken several times since the election, in hopes that his endorsement will win over some of his most loyal supporters.

More context: Trump has been eager to lock up public support from Republicans for his third presidential bid, with a separate GOP source saying he has been asking to see which GOP lawmakers have endorsed him in the media.

A new Congress won’t be sworn in until January and control of the House has not yet been determined, but Republicans appear on track to recapture the chamber and the race to determine who will serve as the next speaker is underway.

A candidate forum and leadership elections are on tap for the evening of Monday, November 18 according to the schedule shared with CNN.

Behind closed doors, secret ballot is used for the elections. In the GOP’s internal leadership elections, McCarthy only needs a simple majority to win his party’s nomination for speaker. That is expected to happen, but McCarthy could still fall short of 218 votes – the magic number needed to win the speaker’s gavel in January.

Whoever is elected to the position of Chair of the House Democratic Caucus will administer the rest of the leadership elections after November 30.

A candidate for Democratic leadership needs to get a majority of the vote in order to win. If more than two candidates run and no one wins a majority, the candidate with the fewest votes after the first round of voting will be eliminated and voting will proceed to a second round. One candidate will win a majority.

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Emmer told reporters that he doesn’t know if a smaller majority will affect his bid. But his pitch to members is similar to McCarthy’s, saying: “we delivered.”

The head of the conservative Republican Study Committee, Jim Banks of Indiana, has officially declared that he will run for the whip position. And Rep. Drew Ferguson of Georgia, the current deputy whip, is also vying for the post, arguing that his experience on the whip’s team will be even more valuable in a slimmer majority, where the chief vote counting job will be crucial for governing.

Currently, Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer serves as the No. 2 House Democrat, in the role of House majority leader, and South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn serves in the role of House majority whip. In the House, New York’s Hakeem Jeffries serves as the caucus chair.

The co chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, Joe Neguse of Colorado, has announced that he will run for caucus chair to replace Jeffries who is term limited.

The race to lead the party’s campaign arm, DCCC chair, is starting to take shape up after the current chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York lost his reelection.

Democratic Rep. Tony Cardenas of California announced his run for the spot on Friday, but others are being considered as well.

McCarthy has worked hard to court Greene, from having weekly meetings with her in his office to promising her better committee assignments after Democrats kicked her off committees for incendiary remarks.

The Freedom Caucus met with McCarthy in his office Monday as they tried to get concessions from him in exchange for their speaker votes.

Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry said that while McCarthy has been willing to hear them out, he doesn’t see McCarthy cutting any deals until after Tuesday, when Perry is “99% confident” that someone will challenge McCarthy to show him he doesn’t have the 218 votes he would need on the House floor in January.

Rep. Bob Good, who said McCarthy faces “an uphill climb” to the speakership, said they’ve asked McCarthy to bring to them his proposal for running the House.

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Perry said that while their primary focus has been seeking rules changes that would empower individual members – and weaken the speaker – that is “not the limit” of their issues.

“We want to see this place change dramatically, to reflect the will of the people and to acknowledge how broken it is,” he said. “It’s incumbent upon anybody that wants to lead to kind of lay out their vision and how they would change their portion of it.”