The Votes Are In - Republican Congressman George Santos Learns His Fate

Hey ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America with breaking news about George Santos, the controversial Republican

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There's not much for me to say other than to show you guys the report and what happened

George Santos with a massive, massive vote, well over 300 votes, has been expelled from Congress

The first member to ever be expelled without being convicted of a crime or being part of the Confederacy

Let's take a look. A poster boy to run against the Republican Party overall over the next many months

And again, the other number, I'm sorry, keep going. No, I was just going to say, just keep an eye on what is happening

What you're seeing is the Republican number of who is voting in favor of expelling the yeas is at 76 right now

70, now it's at 77. If all members are voting in the chamber and voting, they have now, and all Democrats are voting to expel him

They have potentially passed the threshold of expelling him. However, an important note, they can change their votes

So we do not call this, no one declares anything until the gavel lands

They still have two minutes plus left on here. Let's leave this up, guys, and bring up Manu Raju

Just again, again, this number right here, 85, is absolutely enough to boot him if they don't change those votes right now

For context, let's talk about the last vote and what he survived. The last vote to expel, it was 179 in favor

That included 24 Republicans voting to expel. As you can see here, it's far beyond that now and past the threshold that we have been discussing

However, again, lots of caveats. Until it happens, it doesn't happen. Manu, I think Manu is ready

He's standing on the steps. Manu, you hearing anything out there? What are you hearing

I'm ready, yeah. I mean, yeah, this is, this looks like George Santos is done

89 Republicans are voting to expel him. The magic number was 77

So unless something dramatically changes, this will be a historic and unprecedented vote where George Santos will be the first member ever to be expelled

who has not yet, not been convicted of a crime, did not participate as a confederate in the Civil War

But these allegations, apparently to be so damning that a member said that it is enough

It is time to kick him out of the chamber. I just talked to one of them, Carlos Jimenez of Florida

He said that. I asked him about the precedent. Is he concerned about setting the precedent

He said, well, if the precedent shouldn't be lying and stealing from your donors, that should be enough to get you out of Congress

Apparently, that's how a lot of the Republicans felt here. 89 Republicans right now are there

90 Republicans. There are still 48 people who have not voted yet

They need to get that magic number of 290 if all members are present and voting, and we'll see ultimately if they can get there

But at the moment, he is on his way out of Congress, which would set up a special election in a seat that Democrats could pick up

It could make Mike Johnson's job even harder to advance his agenda because they just got to 290

One member of the House. So, so just hit 290, 290 votes

George Santos is poised to be expelled from Congress with support of Republicans and Democrats in this historic vote

Unexpected, as we were suggesting, because of Mike Johnson's opposition, but the decision