A Shadow Deal for Speaker?

After days of seemingly endless votes in the U.S. House of Representatives, we still don’t have a new Speaker of the House. Now representatives from both sides of the aisle are playing Let’s Make A Deal.
We began our broadcast this morning just moments away from ballot number 12 on the House floor to select the next Speaker of the House. Now some Republican hold-outs are showing signs of potentially teaming up with Democrats to make a deal on selecting the next Speaker.
According to the Daily Beast, there are members of both parties working together to cobble together some sort of compromise on the role of Speaker:
"The idea has been circulating around the U.S. Capitol this week like a hopelessly lost tour group: If Rep. Kevin a (R-CA) fails to win enough Republican votes to become speaker, Democrats could bail him out—or help elect a compromise candidate to the post.
Both Republicans and Democrats have dismissed the proposal as either an Aaron Sorkin-esque fantasy or a deliberate ploy from pro-McCarthy forces to scare the GOP holdouts into getting behind the California Republican . . . .
Within the Democratic ranks, lawmakers and aides are quietly gaming out how and when they might help break the GOP impasse—or if they would do so at all."
We’re all for bipartisan lawmaking. But the swirling rumors, leaks, and uncertainty of governance is not good. The Left and their mainstream media allies are loving every minute of this. Unfortunately, we’ve already watched 11 failed votes in just three days, with number 12 going down today, though the margin has narrowed. I’d say we’ve seen how well these people compromise with each other. There are about a thousand different ways this scenario could go wrong.
As the 12th ballot closed, Rep. McCarthy gained support from a significant number of prior Republican detractors and in fact exceeded the number of votes for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (the unanimous selection of the Democrats) for the first time. So it would appear that the end may be near for this contentious battle for Speaker of the House.
So where does all of this go? Today we laid out the possible outcomes. You can watch the full Sekulow broadcast below, including further analysis of the latest developments in the run for Speaker of the House.