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UshiromiyaEva posted...

What does it even mean if by some miracle Jeffries clinches this due to absent/present votes? It's still a majority R House, it's not like the anti-McCarthy Rs are suddenly going to start voting left.

Not much, honestly. It would just be even more embarrassing for them than this already is.

I say this assuming they'd vacate the chair and force more Speaker votes. If you mean by some weird miracle he remained Speaker than it'd actually be kind of helpful. Speaker sets the agenda for the House. Generally speaking, the House only votes on what the Speaker lets them. It's just that unlike the Senate there's a way around that but it's rarely used. But in this bizarro timeline with a Jeffries speakership he could have the House vote on stuff the Senate passes that some of the GOP in vulnerable districts like the NY Reps might end up voting for.

Also would be a lot stressful ensuring that funding the government and raising the debt ceiling actually got votes instead of having to rely on a discharge petition to circumvent the Speaker.