From WaPo:
Democrats who are near the huddle are telling leadership that people were trying to flip Matt Gaetz in real time before the vote was officially tallied. […] McCarthy and his top allies rushed over to Gaetz, who is sitting next to Colorado’s Lauren Boebert and a dramatic showdown is happening. At one point a McCarthy ally, Mike Rogers of Alabama, stormed into the huddle and seemed on the brink of violence, but he retreated to a cloakroom off the floor.
Intra-party fisticuffs on the House floor would be the perfect encapsulation of the GOP right now.
I bet Rogers stormed off to the cloakroom so he could leave a turd in Gaetz’s coat pocket.
ETA: I love this bit about Democrats mocking Republicans for being unable to count.
Confusion set in after most of the GOP conference celebrated Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) “present” vote, seeming to believe that was enough for Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to win. It was not. The room grew quiet, except for the sound of some Democrats laughing.
