He needed 218 votes to be re-elected House leader. He got something like 220 votes. Had it been 217 votes, then he would not have been re-elected Speaker.
Sorry, those are the HOUSE RULES.
Hey if you want to go on believing that that wasn’t to script, thats your call. All I know is that not one serious person once said “Bhoner is in real trouble here”. Not one. Ever.
Why? Because it was not even close. Housse ‘rules’ are meaningless when you script an election.