Addressing those residents reluctant to go, the mayor warned holdouts that all services and shops, including grocery stores, were now closed and that fire officials anticipated that the city would likely be enveloped in dense choking smoke.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/world/americas/canada-wildfires-yellowknife-kelowna.html

At least their fans can hold out hope that these holdouts will soon come to an end.

Source: https://gorgenewscenter.com/2023/09/05/analysis-several-stars-could-join-jonathan-taylor-and-miss-start-of-nfl-season-over-money-squabbles/

Ballots so far have produced almost the same outcome, 20 conservative holdouts still refusing to support McCarthy and leaving him far short of the 218 typically needed to win the gavel.

Source: https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/gops-mccarthy-pressured-to-figure-out-speaker-race

Before the 14th vote, McCarthy had flipped 15 conservative holdouts to become supporters, including the chairman of the chamber's Freedom Caucus, leaving him just a few shy of seizing the gavel for the new Congress.

Source: https://www.newser.com/story/330023/in-14th-round-mccarthy-falls-short-by-one-vote.html

But Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, one of the McCarthy holdouts, had not had a chance to review the deal and wasn’t fully satisfied.

Source: https://time.com/6244711/house-speaker-mccarthy-gridlock-day-two/

"David and I were the holdouts.

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com/georgetown/news/georgetown-area-hardware-stores-open-people-like-the-fact-that-were-a-smaller-business/article_1f4cda14-da2c-11ed-9503-6f92ddb79faa.html

Despite desperate last-minute efforts, including serving the entire caucus Chick-fil-A in the office he hopes will be his, McCarthy as of early Tuesday morning had not yet convinced enough of the holdouts to back him.

Source: https://1010wcsi.com/fox-politics/mccarthy-short-of-votes-as-house-speaker-contest-enters-final-hours/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mccarthy-short-of-votes-as-house-speaker-contest-enters-final-hours

Despite McCarthy always having a large majority of the Republican votes, a number of notable holdouts, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) had stifled the California representative's bid to claim the gavel.

Source: https://theweek.com/kevin-mccarthy/1019897/kevin-mccarthy-elected-house-speaker-following-raucous-debate-proceedings

“Everybody’s going to go home, listen to their constituents, and make a decision,” said Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee, predicting that hearing from the party base would help sway holdouts in Mr. Jordan’s direction.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/us/house-speaker-republicans-jordan.html

For my part, I’m willing to bet that Scalise would say “no,” which isn’t the answer the GOP holdouts would want to hear.

Source: https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/house-speaker-race-republicans-challenge-replacing-mccarthy-rcna64254

Gaetz stands as one of the several Republican holdouts refusing to unite behind Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as Speaker of the House, initially forcing a second vote earlier this week — an occurrence the country has not seen in 100 years.

Source: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/05/matt-gaetz-votes-donald-trump-speaker-house/

He strode to the back of the chamber to confront Matt Gaetz, sitting with Lauren Boebert and other holdouts.

Source: https://abc11.com/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-congress-voting/12662876/

In his bid to become House speaker, McCarthy promised holdouts the chamber would pass major cuts in fiscal 2024 appropriations bills.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/republicans-worry-trumps-defund-the-fbi-push-could-hurt-their-crime-message/article_846cb748-1565-5a82-b4fd-ed00aa9531d4.html

Matt Gaetz gets that and I won't be surprised if the rest of the holdouts see it too.

Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/01/06/does-it-even-matter-the-next-speaker-of-the-is-if-insurrectionists-are-running-the-show/

Microsoft, which has the rights to resell the startup's technology, has a plan to win over the holdouts.

Source: https://slashdot.org/story/23/05/02/1338226/scared-of-leaking-data-to-chatgpt-microsoft-tests-a-private-alternative?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Part of the deal negotiated between McCarthy and holdouts reportedly involves laying out a budget that would balance the books over the next decade and would cap discretionary spending in the 2024 fiscal year at 2022 levels.

Source: https://www.city-journal.org/house-republicans-face-a-choice

Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., a Freedom Caucus member who was among the holdouts during the weeklong speaker's election, said it all may make McCarthy "the best speaker" in his lifetime.

Source: https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20230415/speaker-mccarthy-100-days-in-power-and-a-tough-road-ahead

Roy was among the Republican holdouts who refused to vote for McCarthy at the start of the 118th Congress, but eventually supported him after McCarthy granted a number of democratizing concessions to the rebels.

Source: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/house-republican-chip-roy-threatens-mccarthys-speakership-over-debt-deal-betrayal/

Some of the Republican holdouts including Gaetz are allies of Donald Trump, who is Biden’s chief rival in 2024.

Source: https://fortune.com/2023/09/29/will-there-be-government-shutdown-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-plan/

That came moments after the fourth vote showed 20 conservative holdouts still refusing to support him, unchanged from the previous time around and leaving him far short of the 218 votes typically needed to win the gavel.

Source: https://fortune.com/2023/01/04/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-house-republican-party-defeat-4-votes-congress-chaos/