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"So are you going to end up with a speaker who is further to the right or
more moderate here?"
It could go either way. I heard Ro Khanna doing an interview on the radio wherein he indicated he and other Dems would vote for a Republican speaker if they share subpoena power and agree not to shut down the government over the debt ceiling.
Those concessions may become more palatable if the far right Republicans continue to move the goal posts and demand more and more from McCarthy.
At some point McCarthy will strike a deal with one side or the other.
"There are at least five representatives who will not vote for McCarthy. The ONLY thing he could offer that they'd accept... is that he quit running."
McCarthy only has to sway one of the five. He can win the speakership without four Republicans.
In my opinion, shared subpoena power is something that should exist regardless of which party is in power. If I were McCarthy I would throw that on the table to see if it is enough to garner some votes from Democrats. In the alternative, that might panic the hard right holdouts into foregoing some of their demands and closing a deal to prevent him from working with Dems.
Edited by John Wickett on 05 January 2023 at 9:24pm
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