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        McCarthy was kicked out for working with Democrats to prevent the government shutdown.

        You’re grossly underestimating the RINO / propaganda that causes Republicans to knife each other in the back and demand loyalty.

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        That’s analogous to a conservative commentor saying, “an easy solution would be a few Democrats voting for Jordan.” You and I know that’s about as likely as Hillary stumping for Trump though.

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          That’s analogous to a conservative commentor saying, “an easy solution would be a few Democrats voting for Jordan.”

          I’m pretty sure that was exactly the point. There have been endless articles asking if Democrats will step in to help Republicans out of the mess they created by voting for a marginally less extreme Republican. This person was flipping that nonsense around and asking why a handful of Republicans can’t just vote for someone who actually wants to govern.

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            Two reasons:

            (1) Republicans are knee deep in infighting right now. Working with Democrats is bad enough but voting for one would definitely bring a primary challenger.

            (2) Republicans have the majority in the house. Fair or not, it’s theirs and in my opinion it just isn’t realistic to expect them to give the gavel and the speakers bully pulpit (to borrow the expression) to a Democrat especially at the beginning of a presidential election cycle.

            I haven’t looked at these 20 Biden district Republicans in a lot of depth, only superficially, but I don’t see them switching party alliances and in my opinion that’s the only way they’d vote for Jefferies.

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      There’s no chance of them crossing the aisle to elect a Democrat, yes.

      But there’s also no chance of them siphoning off Democratic votes if they’re unwilling to give anything up, and can’t be trusted even if they offer something juicy.

      So there’s about as much chance that they’ll elect Jeffries as there is that they’ll elect one of their own.

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      There are Republicans where they were able to win their seat but Biden won the general. They might be feeling purple.

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        Purple? Definitely but feeling Blue? I don’t think so. I think it’s increasingly likely that we could see a republican & Blue dog supported speaker but in my opinion it’ll be a republican with some minority party rights. I can’t see Jefferies getting the gavel this time around. Hopefully 2024 gives it to him.