Good morning, Playbookers. I'm Ragu Mwendovalin. It's Friday. Playbooks, Rachel Bade, is here with an update on the race for speaker. It's your Politico Playbook daily briefing.

All right, Rachel Bade, we're on to day four, vote number 12. Yesterday, we discussed a potential deal that, from what I can tell, didn't really yield any movement.

What did you hear about that?

What happened there?

So it sounds like it's still a work in progress.

I just got off the phone with somebody who's close to these talks, more than the McCarthy, on the McCarthy side of things.

And they're still hoping that they can land something early in the morning.

They're basically exchanging paper right now, so getting down to the nitty gritty.

But there have been some of these members who are already suggesting that this is not going to be enough.

I mean, we talked yesterday about how Chip Roy, who's leading these negotiations, was hopeful that he could bring along 10 members with him when he got to yes.

The person I just spoke with who's close to McCarthy was saying that if they get to 10, they'll be lucky.

So things are not looking great right now. They're still

working on this deal. The reality is, even if he gets 10, flips 10, and that sounds to be like a

best case scenario at this point, he still has a coalition that can block him from the speakership.

And so these negotiations are going to continue even after they land this agreement, if they land this agreement.

What should people be on the lookout for today that might be different from past days and past votes?

So what I'm starting to hear from members who are backing him right now publicly is that he's really got to show progress and that he's moving some of these detractors to his camp

or his column as soon as this vote comes to fruition, you know, hopefully this morning.

And I'm starting to hear a lot of frustration from these McCarthy supporters.

They're sort of sick of being in Washington.

They're sick of the drama.

And people are starting to say that, you know, look, if McCarthy can't do this, someone's going to need to confront

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