“There is a deal,” Davidson said. “They started socializing that with the conference last night. But we don’t know for sure how many people are moving out of the 20 that have been opposed to Kevin. The outline of the deal has some things that, frankly, everybody likes, and it has some things that are creating a lot of heartburn.
“So, when you look at the tension that has been created — people that trust one another, people who don’t, the conflict that’s there that’s kind of the way people start dehumanizing one another once they get involved in conflict — there’s a lot of collateral damage.
“I do hope we come together today and we elect Kevin McCarthy as the next speaker of the House, and I do think that the dialogue is potentially going to produce a much better way to govern the conference. And if we can heal those wounds in the collateral damage, I think we’re going to be a more united conference.”
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