Multiple members emerged from the House GOP’s speaker forum on Tuesday saying they don’t see either candidate being any closer to having the votes needed to secure the gavel on the floor.

Driving the news: “No one is close to 217,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) said after Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La) and Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) pitched members on why they believe they should be the next speaker.

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    11 months ago

    Republican politicians: [strangle infants with their bare hands while chanting hymns to Satan and ‘Death to America’]

    Conservatives: “Well, neither side is perfect, there’s a lot of bad going on, some we know about, some we don’t. Really I don’t support either side when you get down to it.” [immediately votes a straight Republican ticket]