Kevin McCarthy Still Has a Math Problem

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) “met with key members of his conference — including several right-wing detractors — as part of an intensifying effort to cobble together the votes he needs to become speaker,” Axios reports.

“McCarthy is at risk of a humiliating and potentially career-ending defeat with just five weeks until the Jan. 3 speaker election, as several members of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus are still publicly vowing to deny him crucial votes.”

“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), one of his key allies in the Freedom Caucus, estimated that privately there ‘could be as many as 10’ no votes.”