House Republicans will gather in the same room Monday night for the first time since the shock ousting of Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week.

The meeting comes in a political landscape rocked by the Hamas attack on Israel.

House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) will each make their case to colleagues for why they should replace McCarthy.

For either to be elected speaker, they will need the support of 217 lawmakers, half the current House – a number that is difficult to achieve in the fractured Republican party.

McCarthy was unable to secure that level of support when he suffered a devastating motion to vacate the chair brought by by rebel Republican Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). 

It is not clear if either Jordan or Scalise has yet found a path that gets them to 217.

Meanwhile, some McCarthy allies and centrists are demanding changes to House rules that would free the new speaker from the prospect of removal in a motion brought by a single lawmaker.