Posted on 10/21/2022 5:41:07 AM PDT by cotton1706
Election Day is still more than two weeks away, and Republicans haven’t yet won back the House, but that isn’t stopping GOP lawmakers from focusing on a different set of races: House leadership elections.
Behind the scenes, the frenzy is already reaching a MAGA crescendo, with factions of Trumpworld split over at least a couple of positions—and candidates competing over who can be the biggest Trump sycophant.
The first question with the House GOP conference’s elections is whether Donald Trump would, as one Republican strategist put it, “fuck with Kevin.”
Short of the former president blowing up the speaker election—or a slim majority blocking Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)—the current GOP leader is expected to take the gavel if Republicans win back the House. While Trump’s relationship with McCarthy has always been more tenuous than McCarthy believes, it’s probably smarter for Trump to reaffirm an ally in McCarthy than to create a new enemy. Most sources expect Trump to play nice.
In that case, it’s almost certain that Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA)—currently the No. 2 House Republican in the minority—would remain the No. 2 House Republican as majority leader.
But that’s where things start to get tricky.
Inside Kevin McCarthy’s Tortured Battle to Be House Speaker
If Republicans take back the majority, everyone currently in GOP leadership gets to move up a rung. (Leader McCarthy becomes speaker; GOP Whip Scalise becomes majority leader; and so on and so forth.)
But Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), currently the No. 3 House Republican in the minority, said she would seek re-election as conference chair, the No. 4 GOP position in the majority.
That leaves a conspicuous opening for majority whip—the No. 3 position in a would-be Republican majority—and the prospective candidates for the position are fully in campaign mode.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Since the Republicans' takeover of the House majority is pretty much assured, the media now move to help get as liberal a leadership team as they can.
They want Tom Emmer to be Whip, and we need ANYBODY BUT Tom Emmer to be Whip.
See below story and quote.
“But the majority whip position, the third ranking House Republican responsible for convincing the conference how to vote, is going to be a free-for-all. Whoever fills it will say a lot about the direction of the GOP going forward.
Right now, NRCC Tom Emmer is campaigning for the job, and according to many accounts, he has significant support including from the party’s supposed conservative flank.
So since Emmer is running to direct the entire House Republican conferences’ votes, it’s worth asking: how has he voted in the past? It turns out his voting record for conservative, America First types, is highly problematic.
Just a few months ago Emmer voted to legalize gay marriage. He’s voted to block Trump’s transgender military ban and voted on four separate occasions in favor of sexual orientation and gender identity protections for government contractors. Juxtapose that with House Republicans promising to combat the far-Left’s cultural insanity and prevent girls from being forced to compete against biological males.”
https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/22/why-cant-republicans-whip-it-good/
Kevin is not suitable to be the Speaker. Someone else is needed.
I think McCarthy should be whipped along with several others. He definitely shouldn’t be Speaker since he’s a do nothing swamp monster.
Coming from Yahoo News, not worth the read.
So everything’s gonna be ‘dark’ now with those communist bastards, ehh?
Hey Yahoo, I would like to see a detailed exploration of Joe Biden’s “dark obsession” with groping preteen girls. Maybe, because Biden is the current President, that “dark obsession” ought to have a higher priority than former President Trump’s view of an impending race for GOP House Whip.
“Dark” anonymous sources.
After the Democrats are beaten - the RINO hunts will begin.
Coming from Yahoo News, not worth the read.
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I read half of this article, and I regret the waste of time. Typical msm speculation and half-opinions from “sources.”
Yes, it looks like Kevin might end up being a do-nothing impediment to Trump’s agenda like Paul Ryan was.
Yahoo, LEFT WING BIASED RAG.
VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT.
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