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House adjourns until 8pm as GOP deadlocked over speaker vote

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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Kevin McCarthy - Who Would Get 218 Votes?

There are at least eight or nine people that would be acceptable to me, I believe. And they're not in freedom- how to freedom caucus? How about that? Would you ever consider blanking or even voting present just to lower the threshold so he could be elected speaker and you could move on with the people's business? "I intend to pursue this to the correct outcome for the American people"

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