Math suggests Kevin McCarthy faces 'a humiliating and potentially career-ending defeat': report

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) dream of becoming House Speaker appears to be in serious jeopardy.

Axios reports that McCarthy faces a daunting mathematical challenge to becoming Speaker, as there are already three Republicans who are hard "no" votes against him, meaning he essentially has to have the support of every other Republican in his caucus to prevail.

"McCarthy is at risk of a humiliating and potentially career-ending defeat with just five weeks until the Jan. 3 speaker election, as several members of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus are still publicly vowing to deny him crucial votes," the report notes. "Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), one of his key allies in the Freedom Caucus, estimated that privately there 'could be as many as 10' no votes."

If there really are 10 "no" votes, that would essentially doomed McCarthy's bid to be House Speaker.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/math-suggests-kevin-mccarthy-faces-a-humiliating-and-potentially-career-ending-defeat-report/ar-AA14J6is

[onecaliberal]

1. Please let it be.

[Tetrachloride]

2. Newty G is still around. He may not be an elected official

But I contend his career is still going.

The ominous overtone of the headline is overblown.

[Walleye]

4. That's funny, I thought of Newt immediately

[nilram]

8. At least they didn't use their caps lock key in the headline.

a HUMILIATING and resounding DEFEAT in store for McCarthy.

It will be devastating, DEVASTATING, I tell you.

[Tetrachloride]

9. Indeed.

[onecaliberal]

3. There have already been 5 republicons who say they won't vote for him.

[tanyev]

5. Aww. I'll have to pop open a bottle of champagne to console myself.

[Cha]

6. Anyone know why the FreeDUMBS

don't like McCarthyism? Or they just want attention?

TY

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Headline writers should not confuse arithmetic with math. Very common, very confused

McCarthy is doing addition and subtraction. Calculating by arithmetic.

Technically arithmetic is part of mathematics, of course. But headline writers at MSN and just about everywhere want to tart up and fancy up their headlines. Also math is 6 letters shorter than arithmetic. At least they didn't repeat the mistake in the article.

And of course it is not even an arithmetic "problem" for McCarthy. He has calculators and spreadsheets and staff.

It's a kindergarten-teacher problem. He has to manage a whole bunch of them including kindergarteners Empty, Boebert, Jordan and the rest.

[Freethinker65]

10. Thought they talked about having Trump be speaker?

That would seal Republican's fate

[republianmushroom]

11. Tsk Tsk Kevin

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Gak, MSN writers especially bad today. Another article. "would essentially doomed" :eyes: . . nt

[Skittles]

13. aw man

I'm rooting for him to win, then show how much he truly sucks....