Nancy Pelosi just reached 212 votes....

[BGBD]

By my count that locks her in as being the next Speaker.

AOC provided vote # 212, as a fun FYI.

[NutmegYankee]

1. How many seats are not filled? Normally 218 is the number needed.

[BGBD]

4. 212 isn't the majority

it's one more than the number of votes I expect McCarthy could reach.

[NutmegYankee]

7. Speaker needs an absolute majority of votes cast.

[BGBD]

13. Yes

But under no circumstances would McCarthy get more than 211, so all additional roll calls would have done would move from Presents to Pelosi.

In any case, the absolute majority today was 215 and she passed that a few moments later.

[NutmegYankee]

14. Excellent news!

[still_one]

2. good

[demmiblue]

3. WTF I CAN"T BELIEVE THAT AOC!!1!!!1

Oh, wait.

[BGBD]

6. Mostly just by chance

that she was the next in line at the time.

[malaise]

5. She must lead at this moment but she has to make preparations to leave once the dust is settled

Keep those boots on their necks Nancy P!

[samnsara]

8. nancy knows where all the bodies are hid..those new freshmen are so effing green..

..they need to ripen and mature a bit me thinks.

[Budi]

11. K & R Thank You!

💙

[onetexan]

15. ditto. Her HEELS on the GOPs necks will need to continue, as malaise has mentioned, given this

antidemocratic Republican party plans to give Biden administration hell the next 4 years.

[lindysalsagal]

9. They just applauded, so, it sounds like it's over???

[Budi]

10. Congrats to our remarkeable leader, Nancy Pelosi

I feel a damn lot better about crawling out of this Trump hell-hole with our lifelong Democrats leading the way.

Trust & Wisdom are a bfd going into 2021.
They have well earned it through their many years at the wheel.

We will be ok
🥂💙

[Gothmog]

12. Yeah

Link to tweet

[obamanut2012]

16. I bet good money AOC and Nancy decoded ahead of time AOC would be #212

[BGBD]

17. They went

alphabetically by groups.

The real "winning" vote was #215. 212 just made it certain that she wouldn't finish the first vote behind McCarthy. There was never any doubt that Pelosi would win the Speakership today though. McCarthy was never going to get a majority.

[obamanut2012]

18. AOC did not vote with her initial group

[BGBD]

19. Yeah but

They also have to have known every other person who would miss their time slot too.

The funnier reaction is to watch rose Twitter from when she missed her vote a d from when she voted for Pelosi. Same with Cori Bush.