Official vote is 216 vs 209
However...
There are still TWO races yet to be called, right? NY-1 and IA-2. GOP leads by a handful or votes. The dems dragged out those races to keep them out of congress for this speaker vote.
If we had them, +2 for GOP and -2 for dems
Then we had like, 3-4 dems who abstained and one or more? who had covid? So that cold have been +3 or more for McKarthy.
So add those up, 209+2 +4 or more and we could have had an even split or win for McKarthy!
The dems cheated in this house vote as well.
This was the end of the cheat. Comparable to the 6 states shutting down counting to cheat it over the line. I guarantee Trump wasn't the only one who had algorithms working against him.