Lots of us believe this is why Trump backed MxCarthy, so the Dems wouldn't consider crossing party lines. Optics, stalemates, the people crying out, and I'm loving every minute of it.

How dirty would a dem feel for voting for a Trump "endorsed" pick?

Another thread on here (stickied as of now) has Roger Stone explaining this move as follows: Dems could vote "present", in effect abstaining. This would lower the threshold of 218 to something less, giving McCave-in the votes.

However, Roger thinks this is unlikely because once Dems started doing this, other R's would see that a deal was made w/Dems and would not vote for McCave, so it would be interesting to see if he would go that far.

I think it could happen because the DS Cabal can team up to get him in... they already proved they don't care about our opinions. Hannity and that (traitorous) crowd would just continue to demonize the 20 patriots and gloss over the D/R uniparty move. IMHO

Of course it’s allowed, it’s a floor election in which every congressperson votes - but the Democrats have been voting as a bloc for Jeffries so the only thing that’s mattered so far is the divided Republican vote.

But in practice there is no way that any of them will flip to McCarthy. There is exactly one thing that the Democrats and the rebels agree about - and that is Kevin McCarthy’s unsuitability for the job.

Less unlikely is that a half-dozen Republicans will cross the aisle to support a Democrat - Jeffries would step aside for that.