“I’ll get 218,” McCarthy told CNN, referring to the votes he’d need to become House speaker.
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“I’m not going to talk about hypotheticals,” said Biggs, who lost his conference’s nomination to become speaker last month after securing 31 votes.
But McCarthy’s detractors said it’s an issue very much still on the table and think he may end up needing to embrace it if he still doesn’t have the speaker votes by January 3.
But he refused to rule out a scenario where his caucus would help elect the next speaker if McCarthy couldn’t get the votes.