What’s the Secret Strategy of the House Speaker Battle?

For the first time in a century, the vote for Speaker of the House could drag into multiple ballots. Congressman Kevin McCarthy came on this show and expressed a strategy boiled down to this: If not me, who? Steve Scalise? Elise Stefanik?

The answer could be other Republicans, or in a real shocker, the Democrat minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, who even some Republicans are willing to support.

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