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Renew Deal

(81,869 posts) Wed Jan 4, 2023, 02:14 PM Jan 2023

Republican Victoria Spartz just voted present

-1 for McCarthy. She was not on the original holdouts list.

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Republican Victoria Spartz just voted present (Original Post) Renew Deal Jan 2023 OP

May she be the first of many, or at least ten or so more! CoopersDad Jan 2023 #1

One down, Abolishinist Jan 2023 #2

But it lowered his threshold by one ... frazzled Jan 2023 #3

CoopersDad

(2,198 posts)

1. May she be the first of many, or at least ten or so more!

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Wed Jan 4, 2023, 02:19 PM

Jan 2023

Sweetness!

Abolishinist

(1,304 posts)

2. One down,

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Wed Jan 4, 2023, 02:21 PM

Jan 2023

ten to go!

frazzled

(18,402 posts)

3. But it lowered his threshold by one ...

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Wed Jan 4, 2023, 02:28 PM

Jan 2023

From 218 to 217 to win. This is a strategy (though not, logically, her strategy, since the requisite number of present votes to allow a McCarthy win would all have to come from those who voted against him).

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