Politico reports that both Rep. Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) and Rep. Jim Clyburn (D., S.C.) think they are on the verge of gathering the votes needed to secure the no. 2 spot in the Democratic leadership:

The fallout of Nancy Pelosi’s decision to stay in power — and her failure so far to engineer a smooth transition for her lieutenants — continued to ripple through the Democratic Caucus over the weekend as Steny Hoyer of Maryland and Jim Clyburn of South Carolina battled for the votes needed to become minority whip.
Hoyer’s allies said early Sunday that their man is poised for victory and is ready to identify a new batch of supporters from a broad cross section within the Democratic Caucus.
At the same time, during an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Clyburn left open the possibility that there might be a broader deal that would leave both he and Hoyer in the leadership.
But Clyburn’s camp is also privately telling members that he’s on the verge of locking down the votes he needs to win.
Hoyer has a lead in public commitments, and his vote-counting operation has far more experience in contested leadership races.
“We’ve run the spectrum on him and completely boxed him out,” one Hoyer ally told POLITICO.
Though the race is free of the acrimony that has marked previous Democratic leadership bouts, it is being hotly contested, and it’s causing tremendous consternation within a caucus that clearly would like to see both men remain at the leadership table.

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