David Jolly makes good point: Kevin was expecting 30 seat margin so thought he could ignore the

[TomDaisy]

crazies. Instead the crazies have all the leverage.

[Meadowoak]

1. Womp womp.

[hlthe2b]

2. That's what happens when RW pollsters flood the last week polls with skewed

findings. It irks me that so many ate it up and regurgitated the grim "red wing" verbatim and 24/7, but in the end, it mostly backfired.

[underpants]

3. Good point. Elections have consequences

[localroger]

4. Yeah but he's had a couple of months warning

He is majority leader, it's not like he has to hold a vote he knows he's going to lose in the full house. This is straight up incompetence at the job he is so desperate to hold.

[moonscape]

5. Exactly. Nancy would never have let this happen.

[NYC Liberal]

6. Well, they kind of do have to hold this vote

because they literally cannot do anything else until it happens. Not even swear in the members. It isn’t even up to him.

[tritsofme]

7. He did have to hold the vote when he did.

The Constitution demands they come into session on 1/3.

What is puzzling is that is was clear he was going to lose, but he put his name forward anyways, and continues to do so after three days of humiliation.