So *some* of the Taliban20 are making noises that they'll back Kevin in exchange for various groveling concessions to MAGA lunacy (like vowing never to work against maggots in open primaries).

That *may* allow a humiliated, weakened McCarthy to make it through.

Or it could be that enough of the 20 won't bend that a "deal" would fail anyway.

It's a shitshow no matter how it ends.