[irishjuggler]

McCarthy is just trolling here. 10 Dems voting against Pelosi in this Congress has no meaning in the next Congress.

Not exactly true. Speaker needs an outright majority, not just a plurality. If your aforementioned 10 won't vote for her in a full floor vote, then she's not speaker. The question is, if Pelosi can't get 218 (or a majority of an otherwise assembled quorum), then who can?

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Maybe Hoyer!!!

[AuH2ORepublican]

“Speaker needs an outright majority, not just a plurality.”
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Not exactly. There was a long thread about this on FR a few years ago when it wasn’t clear if Boehner would get a majority, and I recall a report from the Congressional Research Service made this all clear. To be elected Speaker, one needs to get a majority of votes cast for a person, even if it’s less than 218. If anti-Pelosi Democrats vote “Present” they wouldn’t count towards the denominator, so Pelosi could be elected Speaker, say, by 213-212 with 10 members voting “Present.”