So apparently McCarthy was putting his weight behind making sure nobody was gonna collect enough votes to become speaker. it makes sense in hind sight. if he spiked every other guy who tries to take over it eventually has to go back to him right? guy is fucking scummy.
what happened was after Emmer got shot down they wanted to take a non-binding poll to see if Mike had enough votes. it wasn't allowed by the rules so it needed to be a unanimous decision. Only McCarthy objected. They then took a recess and he used that time to finagle 40 or so into saying no when the votes were done anonymously. for some strange reason though none were willing to follow though with it when they would have to put their names down and let their voters know who they were.
Seriously FUCK the RINOs.