JOB VACANCY CALL CENTER GAJI 3 JUTA

 On the day of the vote, McCarthy, realizing he could not get to 218 votes on the floor, abruptly dropped out, eventually paving the way for a consensus candidate, Paul Ryan, to become speaker.

If McCarthy can’t cobble together 218 once again, it’s unclear who could. Scalise would be next in line but also would have the same challenges as McCarthy. Conservative leaders also have been distrusting of GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., a onetime moderate turned close Trump ally who is the No. 3 in the caucus. Other names floated include Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., who has his eye on the Financial Services Committee gavel.

Webster, once a rival, said that this time around he is backing McCarthy for speaker. He thinks it’s a different scenario from seven years ago, because Republicans are ascendant, moving from the minority to the party in power.

“This is different in that we are coming from the minority into the majority, and this is a guy who raised the money to get us there,” said Webster, who warned that denying McCarthy the speaker’s gavel could result in a situation on the floor where no one can secure 218 votes.

The ensuing chaos, Webster said in a phone call Thursday, could lead to an unlikely outcome in which Republicans and Democrats reach a deal to elect a speaker.

“We need to somehow keep that in mind, that having someone else come in who is not a Republican would lead to the status quo,” Webster said.

Some Democrats on Thursday were encouraging McCarthy to do the unimaginable: strike a deal with the opposition.

“Just cut a deal with the Dems Kevin,” tweeted Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz. “Whatever you get from Freedom Caucus will not be worth it. The odds will be good but the goods will be odd.