Tom Emmer drops out of Speaker's race | The Hill
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by Mychael Schnell - 10/24/23 4:28 PM ET
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) dropped out of the Speaker's race Tuesday, just hours after the conference nominated the Minnesota Republican for the top job, according to a source familiar.
Emmer withdrew his name from the running after a contingent of Republicans made clear they would not back him on the House floor, making it virtually impossible for him to secure enough votes to win the gavel.
It also came after former President Trump released a scathing statement calling Emmer a "RINO" and saying voting for him "would be a tragic mistake."
Emmer won the GOP nomination over House GOP Vice Chair Mike Johnson (La.) in a secret ballot 117-97, but in a secondary roll call vote, 26 Republicans voted present or for another person, according to House GOP Conference Secretary Lisa McClain (R-Mich.).
If all members vote present and for a specific candidate, Emmer could only afford to lose four Republicans and still win the Speakership on the House floor.
Emmer is the third GOP Speaker nominee to fall short of the gavel in the past three weeks. The conference voted to drop Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as its nominee last week following three failed attempts to win the gavel on the House floor. Before that, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) withdrew his name from the running amid staunch opposition from Jordan supporters.
News of Emmer dropping out from the race will catapult the House GOP conference back to square one — again — as they restart the search for a new Speaker following Rep. Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) ouster from the post.
Tuesday marked exactly three weeks since eight Republicans and Democrats voted to boot McCarthy from the Speakership.
DEVELOPING.
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At this point I don't see any way out for the House but moderates on both sides to break ranks. The Clown Car Freedom Caucus refuses to govern.
Oooops ... I'll trash my seed.
what a serial GOP shit show. trump still has the entire republican house by the short and curlies...
At some point Trump and Co will overstep the will of everyone else. As non-governing more and more eat into the profits of the donor class this will get more interesting.
if I was jefferies, I'd be looking for 5 or 6 republicans that wanted some plum committee assignments or a soft landing in their next election...
It won't be Jefferies. It would take 7 Republicans to cross ranks and it would be political suicide. IF I were Jefferies I'd be pushing my moderates to talk to the Republican moderates to elect one of them. The Dems can withstand that to get back to work and almost look like saviors and get back on committees themselves.
Yeah this is now beyond absurd.
they're intentionally sabotaging all the republicans in unsafe and contested house districts for 2024. LOL, too bad...
The next one up now is Mike Johnson from LA. A Freedom Caucus MAGA populist.
Yeah, they blew it again.
The floor vote will come shortly after noon eastern time. Johnson says he's confident he will pass in one vote and that seems to be the message the GOP is pushing this morning.
The GOP Trump infection worsens.
Wow, talk about a total Clown Car without a driver. We are seeing wacko's that were willing to overturn the constitution control our country.
The wako's want to kill government so I guess to them this way is as good as any. At some point the rest of the party may have to cut them loose.
That's it exactly.
They wanted a shutdown and didn't get it, so they're refusing to cooperate until they get one.
Either someone from leadership sits the idiots down and tells them this is how it will be done or they lose all their committees and reelection cash OR they start making deals with Democrats to get business done. I don't see the moderates in swing districts sitting on their hands staring down a government shutdown.
The "freedom caucus" doesnt care if the government shuts down. That is one of the predicaments in this, the nihilists in the Republican conference WANT government crippled.
As I've said. Now it's up to the rest of them to take charge OR face their electorate that doesn't want a shut down.
The rest of them would not be enough to elect a new speaker unless the Democrats work with them.
And that might be what it takes.
Quite the contrary. They very much want it shut down.
Yikes, tomorrow will be awash with squirrel seeds.
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it'll be a mad scramble to find stories that aren't about the incompetence of the house republicans...
republicans are in a huddle now trying to figure out how to blame house democrats for this.
Oh FFS.
Just give it to Nick Fuentes and get it over with.
There was some far right conspiracy about Emmer going around the last couple days. There are so many of them though I cant quite remember what it was.
I can't remember off the top of my head, did the Armed Forces Appropriations bill get passed or was it wrapped into McCarthy's CR?
It’s was never passed, I don’t even think the House has a draft version. The SAC-D and the HAC-D haven’t meet to resolve differences. Best we can hope for at this point is another Continuing Resolution.
What would it take to get Trump to stop making everything about him? Money maybe. Lets take up a national collection in some sort of telethon to raise enough money to get him to shut the fuck up.
Apparently many on the Repub side of the aisle really don’t want to govern. It’s much more fun to just raise campaign money and provide sound bites to the media. Legislating is too much work and it’s tediously boring.