This is the second time Kevin McCarthy was rebuffed by the right. Let's remember that.
Yet we are still here, Kevin McCarthy is still next in line, still expecting that seat. Why? Why, when we have known since John Boehner was Speaker that McCarthy did not have the support to be Speaker?
Two reasons: McCarthy's ego, and a GOP that failed to remove McCarthy and his supporters from key committees when it became clear he lacked that support, because (I presume) they were afraid of losing the seat in deep-blue California.