众议院共和党领袖凯文·麦卡锡在周二遭遇了一场又一场的失败，但他坚持认为，随着战斗升级，他不会放弃竞选众议院议长周三将会是混乱的第二天。
“这是我想要的一天吗?不，”他在周二晚上告诉ABC新闻。但他坚持说，他仍然感觉“非常好”，并确认他不会放弃对议长的出价。
“让我们换一个角度看问题”加州代表说。“你现在有202票。所以严格来说你只需要再多11票就能赢了。会议中有人能赢吗?好吧，我不认为那里有。所以，我们可以周而复始。结果要么是有人犯了错误，选了民主党人，要么是我们将找到一种能够共同治理国家的方法。”
第四轮投票预计将在周三举行，届时众议院将于中午再次开会。在选举议长的三轮投票失败后，当选成员在周二下午6点前休会。
然而，麦卡锡对实用主义的关注仍然没有让他获得他目前需要的218票，他希望一些反对他的共和党人可以收回或投票，这可能有助于他最终越过这条线。
然而，这并不能保证会发生，无论他采取什么样的观点，目前，他仍然没有足够的选票。
“我真的不认为这是一场战斗。我只是-我们离得不远。我们只需要再多11票就能赢，麦卡锡告诉美国广播公司新闻。我认为每个人都走到了一起，所以我们会得到它。"
麦卡锡还表示，他周二晚上与前总统唐纳德·特朗普通了电话，告诉记者特朗普在交谈中重申了对他的支持。
麦卡锡说:“他认为最好是所有共和党人聚在一起解决这个问题。”。“这对共和党人来说看起来不太好，但我们希望能够在我们长期更强大的地方解决这个问题，我们今天经历的事情最终会成为一个积极的信号，表明我们实际上是团结一致的。”
周二第118届国会召开时出现的混乱现在将蔓延到周三，可能会持续更长时间，在选出议长之前，众议院不能开展其他业务。
佛罗里达州众议员拜伦·唐纳兹(Byron Donalds)在第三轮投票中改变了对议长的投票，他在社交媒体上说，“连续投票不起作用。”
“我们的会议需要休会，聚在一起，找一个人或制定出下一步行动...但这些持续的投票对任何人都没用，”唐纳兹写道。“当尘埃落定时，我们将有一位共和党发言人，现在是我们的会议进行辩论并达成共识的时候了。”
After 3 failed speaker votes, McCarthy vows to fight on
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy was dealt one defeat after another on Tuesday but insists he will not back down from his bid to for House speaker as the fight spills into a what appears will be a second chaotic day on Wednesday.
"Is it the day I wanted to have? No," he told ABC News Tuesday night. But he insisted he still feels "very good" and confirmed there is no scenario where he is dropping his bid for speaker.
“Let's take a different perspective,” the California representative said. “You're sitting at 202 votes. So you need technically just 11 more votes to win. Is there anybody in the conference that can win? Okay, I don't think that's there. So, we can go round and round. It'll either turn out that someone will make a mistake and elect a Democrat or we're going to find a way to work together to be able to govern."
A fourth round of voting is expected to take place on Wednesday when the chamber gathers again at noon. Members-elect adjourned shortly before 6 p.m. on Tuesday following three failed rounds of voting to elect a speaker.
McCarthy’s focus on pragmatism, however, still doesn’t get him to the 218 votes that he currently needs to take the speaker’s gavel and it appears he is hoping some of the Republicans who oppose him might either backtrack or vote present, which could help him eventually getting over the line.
Yet, there is no guarantee that will happen and no matter what perspective he takes, at the moment, he still doesn't have the votes.
"I don't really see it as a battle. I just -- we're not that far away. We only need 11 more votes to win, McCarthy told ABC News. “I think everybody comes together so we'll get that.”
McCarthy also said he spoke to former President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, telling reporters Trump reiterated his support for him during their conversation.
"He thinks it's better that all the Republicans get together and solve this,” McCarthy said. “It doesn't look good for Republicans, but we want to be able to solve it where we're stronger in the long run, where what we went through today, in the end, becomes a positive that we're actually focused united."
The chaos that ensued on Tuesday as the 118th Congress convened is now set to spill into Wednesday -- possibly beyond -- and the House can conduct no other business until a speaker is chosen.
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., who changed his vote for speaker in the third round, said on social media that "continuous votes aren't working."
"Our conference needs to recess and huddle and find someone or work out the next steps...but these continuous votes aren't working for anyone," Donalds wrote. "When the dust settles, we will have a Republican Speaker, now is the time for our conference to debate and come to a consensus."
