The odds of Biggs actually becoming House speaker are effectively non-existent. He knows that. His candidacy is less about earning the coveted gavel and more about making it easier to deny the minority leader a majority. (via MaddowBlog)
That made McCarthy the official GOP pick for the speaker’s gavel, but individual members will still have an opportunity to vote how they please when the new Congress takes office early next year. The current Republican leader won’t need each of the 31 members who supported Biggs, but he will need the vast majority of them to lock down a majority of the chamber.
It’s against this backdrop that Biggs wants those same members to know they have a choice if they don’t want McCarthy: They can vote for him instead. Realistically, the odds of Biggs actually becoming House speaker are effectively non-existent. He knows that. His candidacy is less about earning the coveted gavel and more about creating an alternative on the House floor for McCarthy’s intra-party detractors, making it easier to deny the minority leader a majority.
If five House Republicans — including Biggs — vote for him, McCarthy won’t have the support he’ll need, at least on the first ballot. At that point, there’d likely be quite a bit of chaos in the chamber, with the prospect of multiple votes, for some undermined period of time, until someone can piece together a majority.
That would throw the House into chaos, with possible repeated votes until someone emerges with enough support to be speaker.
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