“I earned this job,” said McCarthy (R-Calif.). “We earned this majority, and God damn it, we are going to win it today.”
However, the GOP leader also admitted that he knows he won’t have the 218 votes likely needed to win on the first ballot, according to“I’m not going to go away,” McCarthy said. “I’m going to stand until the last four friends stand with me.”
Sources inside the room also told the news outlet that McCarthy made it clear that he will no longer engage in negotiations with a handful of hardline Republicans who oppose him becoming speaker. At one point during Tuesday’s meeting, McCarthy reportedly told one of the prospective holdouts, Chip Roy of Texas, that “you don’t know how to say ‘yes.'”
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