Do you have any questions?

Does leader McCarthy have the votes tonight to become speaker?

McCarthy, you are watching a special edition of CNN tonight, the speaker vote.

Good evening, tall and to you, Jake. I'm Erin Bernat.

Hey, Erin. I'm Jake Tapper. We're standing by for what could be.

An historic couple of hours after four days, 13 votes.

Kevin McCarthy is about to see whether his efforts to win over these last few hardliners with

who knows what concessions has paid off.

In just minutes, the House will reconvene and it will vote for speaker.

Again, this will be the 14th ballot.

The 14th? We'll see if it's lucky 14 here, Jake, for McCarthy.

And of course, the strategy we're learning is to get at least three of the six remaining holdouts to vote present,

which would then lower the threshold required to win to 216 votes, which McCarthy has.

So we have learned that the three names that McCarthy as allies are talking to are,

Eli Crane, Matt Rosendale, and Lauren Bober.

These are crucial names. And if these three vote present, then McCarthy will become the 55th person to serve as the speaker of the House.

So as we are standing by for that vote, and Jake and I expect this to be gabbled in momentarily,

less than 10 minutes, 10 PM Eastern. We expect it to happen at that time.

We're reporting that McCarthy's team believes that they have the votes,

and that they're already taking steps to organize the House.

Well, we'll see, because you know, at this point, you never know until you know,

but there was an incredible turnaround earlier today from McCarthy that gave him the momentum.

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