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Amid the impasse, McCarthy is floating a plan that would reinstall him as speaker and make Jordan, a conservative Trump ally, the assistant speaker, according to three sources familiar with McCarthy’s pitch. Asked why the idea — which lacks key details, like how it would be enacted and whether it could even gain enough traction to happen — was being floated now, a GOP lawmaker replied: “We’re desperate.” While the idea might seem far-fetched and it has not been pitched broadly within the GOP Conference, it is being discussed among some Republicans after Emmer, the third GOP nominee, dropped his...

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) dropped out of the Speaker’s race on 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.

Rep. Byron Donalds said he would 'absolutely' release the security footage ... A House Republican who is seeking the House speaker position said he would release all the Jan. 6 Capitol breach security footage, coming months after a batch of tapes were released to Fox News. "I will, absolutely," Mr. Donalds said when he was asked by Fox News co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy if he would release the entirety of the Jan. 6, 2021, footage. The Epoch Times contacted his office for more information. Republicans have raised concerns about the Department of Justice's treatment of individuals who were arrested over Jan....

On Friday, popular conservative Rep. Jim Jordan failed to secure enough support to become the Speaker Designate after RINOS stabbed him in the back.Jordan, arguably the most popular Republican in Congress today, failed to reach the threshold after 23 RINOs voted against him and their conservative voter base.(snip)Republicans in the House will meet this morning to vote for their next Speaker in a closed door session.According to CNN the vote will take place behind closed doors in a secret ballot.

Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) said Monday on CNN “NewsNight” it was “very possible” that House Republicans will have a final vote for a speaker by tomorrow night.

Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., clapped back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's, D-N.Y., comments she made Sunday with MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan. "Before I got to Congress, I spent 20 years in the financial industry, something that leadership here on Capitol Hill definitely needs," Donalds said on Fox's "The Story" with Martha MacCallum on Monday. "Number two, I spent four years in the legislature in Florida. I chair two committees there, and number three, since being here on Capitol Hill, I've worked intimately with members of our leadership team and members all through the conference, both appropriators and authorizers to get some of...

Donald Trump says Republicans need an act of God to find a candidate for House speaker who could reach the 217 votes needed to take the gavel. Former President Donald Trump has yet to put a MAGA stamp of approval on any of the current candidates as the House has been embroiled in chaos for 20 days without a speaker after Kevin McCarthy's historic ouster. Trump was in New Hampshire Monday to officially register to run in the 2024 Republican presidential primary and spoke to reporters about the 'tumult,' as he put it, on Capitol Hill. The ex-president revealed that...

candidates, who include Majority Whip Tom Emmer and GOP Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson, are set to make their cases before the Republican Conference on Monday. These are the candidates who have thrown their hats in the ring after Jordan dropped out:

Republican infighting in the House of Representatives since the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy two weeks ago isn't so much creating dysfunction as it is exposing dysfunction. Over the past 10 months, strange coalitions have been built and dispersed, candidates have risen and fallen, and private animosities have burst into public view. While the D.C. legacy media press has proven itself incapable of explaining any of the above (see: its description for the "hard right coalition" of Reps. Matt Gaetz, Nancy Mace and Ken Buck), the squabbling has clarified just how cracked up the Republican Party truly is.

As to what is happening (or not happening) in the House of Representatives, most America First Patriots have always believed that Representative Kevin McCarthy leaned RINO rather than MAGA. Still, Republicans elected McCarthy Speaker of the House in January in a fair (albeit long) election process…. McCarthy did not follow through on several key promises, many of which are detailed in numerous other articles. However, Florida Representative Matt Gaetz and his illustrious seven followers ousted McCarthy with Marxist Democrat support while lacking a plan forward. There would have been some thought to what Gaetz did if he had included in...

House Republicans voted down Jim Jordan, a member from Ohio, as a candidate for the House Speaker position. The secret ballot concluded with 112 votes against Jordan and 86 in his favor. This ballot was cast after the House of Representatives lacked a Speaker for over two weeks, following a motion by Matt Gaetz to vacate the chair. Kevin McCarthy had also been removed from the position earlier in the month by a 216-210 vote. The eight Republicans that voted against McCarthy included Biggs, Buck, Burchett, Crane, Gaetz, Good, Mace, and Rosendale. After the recent ballot, Kevin McCarthy voiced his...

t’s not worth calling any of these sellout Republicans.They don’t give a damn about you, believe me. Don’t call their office. Don’t contact them. Don’t protest. Just organized, get a solid primary opponent, and fire them by making them lose their primary by 40 points like Liz Cheney. 8:46 PM · Oct 20, 2023 · 852.4K Views

Florida Congressman Byron Donalds has announced he is running to become the first African American speaker of the House. The politician, 44, who endorsed Donald Trump's 2024 White House bid, shared news of his candidacy on X (formerly twitter) on Friday. 'I look forward to securing the votes of a majority of my Republican colleagues to become the first African-American Speaker, the first Speaker from the great state of Florida and the next Speaker of the 118th Congress,' he said. It comes after Republicans voted out Jim Jordan as their House speaker nominee after he tried - and failed -...

I would imagine that Jim Jordan is a tad bit disappointed Friday that his fellow Republicans finally decided to end his dream of becoming speaker after three attempts. Running for a congressional seat is probably much harder -- physically -- than running around a district of 600,000 people and playing nice. Yet, losing a contest to lead your peers of a little over 200 -- mentally -- has to sting a little bit. Comfortable in the fact that I know that I'll never run for office, I can't say I can really imagine how Jordan feels, having never met the...

As Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) saw his Speaker nomination end after three failed votes, several Republicans are offering to censure themselves to pave the way for him to take over the role. On Friday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL.) joined six other Republicans in preparing to go to battle to ensure Jordan becomes Speaker of the House. In a letter to House Republicans, the GOP members said they are willing to be suspended, censured, or removed from the Conference to save Jordan's sinking ship. "If the holdouts who refuse to vote for Speaker-Designate Jim Jordan would be willing to 'vote with...

President Donald Trump does not support House Majority Whip Tom Emmer becoming Speaker of the House and has privately relayed that sentiment to his supporters, complicating an already convoluted leadership contest that currently has at least four candidates. The Republican conference removed Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan as its speaker designee on Friday after he thrice failed to win the post in a floor vote. GOP Reps. Austin Scott, Ga.; Byron Donalds, Fla.; Kevin Hern, Okla.; Jack Bergman, Mich.; and Emmer have all since emerged as potential replacements for ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Several more are expected to jump into...

Rep. Kevin Hern, a Republican representing Oklahoma's 1st Congressional District, announced his campaign for the position on social media Friday afternoon.

Podcaster Dan Bongino blasted House members Friday for not producing a speaker after 17 days. "PICK A SPEAKER ALREADY YOU CHILDISH NITWITS!" Bongino wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has failed in three elections for speaker as of Friday. The previous two elections happened back to back on Thursday. Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted when eight Republicans voted to oust him along with the rest of the Democratic members. "McCarthy, of all people, was just on the floor nominating Jordan, which makes these whining crybaby wussbags in Congress look even...

Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Friday on CNN’s “New Central” that Republicans were in a “very bad place” after Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) bid for the speakership failed a third time. Reporter Manu Raju said, “This went in the wrong direction for Jim Jordan. He clearly does not have the votes. Is it time for him to withdraw?” McCarthy said, “That’s a question for him. I think we’ll go to conference here shortly and see which direction we go in.”

As the search for the next Speaker of the House of Representatives continues, the American public is starting to wonder who else may be a candidate to fill the important role in the nation's legislative branch. With popular favorite Jim Jordan struggling to muster enough votes, the candidate currently gaining the most momentum in the race is an expired tub of Hellmann's mayonnaise. Historic! Hellmann's isn't alone. The Babylon Bee has obtained the following list of the other GOP frontrunners: A tub of expired Crisco: Not as good as the Hellman's mayo, but a solid backup option. ¡Jeb! Bush: Can...