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McCarthy floats path to Speakership with lower vote threshold
House GOP Speaker nominee Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) expressed optimism about winning the gavel Tuesday night as he emerged from meetings with allied members following three failed ballots, floating the possibility of winning the post with fewer than 218 votes.  “You're sitting at 202 votes, so you need technically just 11 more votes to win,” McCarthy said. "Democrats have 212 votes. You get 213 votes, and the others don't say another name, that's 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,” McCarthy said. A House Speaker is elected by a majority of all those voting for a specific Speaker candidate, not

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