Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Raguamuna Vallin. It's Thursday. Playbooks, Rachel Bade is here with an update on Kevin McCarthy and his negotiations for Speaker. It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

All right, Rachel Bade, we're on to day three of a battle for speaker we haven't seen in a century.

What do you know about what to expect for day three vote number seven?

So McCarthy's probably waking up in a better mood today than he has been in the past two days.

And that is because there was possibly a breakthrough last night, or at least he's on the verge of one this morning. After

failing to get the vote six times on the House floor, McCarthy huddled with a bunch of his

detractors yesterday evening and offered a bunch of new concessions that we are hearing might

actually win over a bunch of these critics of his and flip them to voting for him.

Now, the big question for today is going to be, will this be enough to actually land him the speakership?

And that is still very much an open question.

Chip Roy, who is a Republican from Texas and one of the rebels who has been sort of leading

these negotiations for them, he told reporters last night that these new rules changes and

offerings could potentially lead as many as 10 of them to be backing McCarthy if everything

goes through the way they wanted to. We just don't know, though, because that's still not going to be enough McCarthy if everything goes through the way they wanted to.

We just don't know, though, because that's still not going to be enough to get McCarthy the gavel.

I also talked to a McCarthy ally late last night, about one in the morning, unfortunately, who basically

warned us that they still think they have at least five hard

nose against McCarthy, maybe even more, as many as seven.

And he basically told me that he thought this situation was going to be getting worse before

it gets better.

If they go to a vote on the floor today at noon, he thought that

there could actually be more detractors voting against McCarthy than yesterday. And that is because

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