In order to win, Kevin McCarthy donned a straitjacket.
Quite the scene to watch from the backbench.
Among the more surreal scenes of the first couple days of speaker votes this week was one of the most powerful members in the history of the House, ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, sitting in the second-to-last row of the gallery like some no-name bum.
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