10/24/23
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (Minn.) emerged Tuesday as the Republican conference’s nominee for House Speaker as the chamber tries to elect a leader. It took five rounds of votes to get to consensus.
Emmer beat House Republican Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson (La.).
The day started with eight candidates. Over the course of about three hours, candidates were dropped through the internal voting process or stepped aside.
Emmer now needs to reach 217 votes on the House floor to become Speaker.
The conference’s first nominee for Speaker — House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) — withdrew his name before even receiving a floor vote when it became clear he couldn’t reach that threshold. Its second nominee — House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — lost three votes on the House floor before the House GOP voted to remove him as its nominee.
This is good news for Ukraine. In “Republicans For Ukraine” report card, Mr. Emmer gets an “A”. Let’s hope that this circus show will end soon and that Emmer gets the gavel.
Emmer has been a Reagan republican for as long as I’ve known him
This what he said on Feb 24, 2022. Somewhat different from what Trumpkov said on that day. In fact the exact opposite.
Let’s hope he has remained in that state of mind since then:
Emmer Statement on the Russian invasion of Ukraine:
https://emmer.house.gov/2022/2/emmer-statement-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine
Thanks for sharing, Scradge. I hope the guy makes it.
It appears there are still 10 against Emmer, which is enough to stop him from becoming Speaker, he can only afford 4 holdouts.
I’m hearing the votes were behind closed doors and secret ballots.
Sounds like something to hide
Emmers has dropped out of race for Speaker