California RINO Kevin McCarthy can’t seem to get the needed votes to become speaker. The same thing happened in 2015 when Republicans had a majority and McCarthy was Majority Leader. He couldn’t get even votes to become speaker, and eventually Paulie Munster Ryan got it.
After the first vote, there are at least 12 votes for someone other than McCarthy, again will either require more votes, or a better candidate. Andy Biggs or Jim Jordan would be much better than McCarthy but the RINOs would never vote for them.
How about Lee Zeldin? Now that he’s no longer a member of congress, he still is eligible to be Speaker. If he Zeldin were the be Speaker, it would give the Republicans one extra vote that they sorely need to pass legislation.