Posted on 10/12/2023 7:56:23 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise will not secure the 217 votes needed to become the chamber’s speaker, according to sources.
The House conference has been delaying bringing the nomination to the floor for a full vote, as several members tell me Scalise cannot win.
“There are as many as 20 members opposing Scalise,” one source said, noting almost all are “Jordan and McCarthy supporters,” referring to Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who lost to Scalise on a secret ballot for nomination to replace ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
Publicly, Jordan is supporting Scalise, but privately he has told others he will enter the race as soon as Scalise withdraws.
House GOP Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern, R.-Okla., and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R.-Minn., are also discussing plans to enter the speaker's race after Scalise exits. Both are also preparing to challenge Jordan.
Jordan lost the vote to Scalise among House Republicans Tuesday, 113-99.
Jordan then pushed for a motion that the House GOP's nominee must win 217 votes before the matter is brought to the floor. That motion was rejected by the conference.
Hern appears to be the sleeper candidate. He’s solidly conservative, supports former President Donald Trump, and is liked by moderates who won’t back Jordan.
Emmer, meanwhile, is a moderate opposed by Trump, which likely would doom his bid for the leadership position.
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https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/kevin-hern
Kevin Hern Liberty Score: B 82%
https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/tom-emmer
Tom Emmer Liberty Score D 69%
https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/jim-jordan
Jim Jordan Liberty Score: A 94%
https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/byron-donalds
Byron Donalds Liberty Score: A 100%
“4. The Republicans just held a close-door vote to “nominate” their candidate for the House Speaker vote. Scalise won that vote, but he only got 113 votes in the process. 99 Republicans voted for Jim Jordan.”
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It what THAT I was referring to, the “close-door” vote!
They got their nominee didn’t they, right?
If we had republican gentlemen in the House, we would RESPECT that nomination.
Why do we organize a “close-door” vote if an hour later it’s not followed up upon anyway? We look like spoiled brats and fools. It’s a madhouse!
A Mad House.
Good question, but I would respond with this:
“I love that the deciding factor is Trump.”
He apparently “decided” on the wrong guy.
“Wake me when we get someone better than McCarthy.”
Can we take just a “minute” for such an IMPORTANT decision?
Remember, Congress NOT doing ANYTHING, is a GOOD thing.
Yes and Pence is a back stabbing traitor
“Noooo! According to some of the intellectual giants, the House not being to able to do ANYTHING is preferred!”
You are CORRECT! But seeing your screen name, I realize you just forgot the /s sarc tag.
And, “intellectual giant”, does not describe you. Surprised you could spell it.
Frankly he’s a sick man fighting cancer....wasn’t a good pick to begin with.
Byron Donalds or
Jim Jordan
“With such a narrow margin in the House, the Republicans have to be almost unanimous behind their man, when this goes to the full House for the vote. Stay tuned.”
True that. “To be or not to be....” This is turning into a joke, if it hasn’t already.
McCarthy’s ouster has opened the floodgates of camera-seeking attention-grabbers who have zero interest in accomplishing anything.
I think the GOP caucus should offer Nancy Pelosi a consulting gig on how to attain party discipline. This clown show will undoubtedly disaffect swing district independents who will rightly ask why they should vote for a GOP Congress if they can’t get one even with a majority.
people are moaning about the “chaos”
but it is better than maintaining the status quo
there needs to a course correction
and this is what it looks like
“They are doing what they do best - talking, infighting, and accomplishing nothing for their conservative base.”
Yes, and one more thing: They get highly paid for DOING NOTHING.
It’s every man for himself. Republicans are incapable of honoring their own democratically-determined choice.
Hern might be who we have to settle with which would be better than Scalise/McCarthy, but worst than Jordan. At least he supports Trump and Jordan continues investigating Biden. Unless Donalds’ name is mentioned, no use hoping.
“the House not being to able to do ANYTHING is preferred!”
Since everything they do screws our country or fails to get through the Senate and Administration then Absolutely.
“While some of you see this process as broken, it is actually functioning exactly how the Founders wanted it to work.”
I agree with you.
Go back to January 2015 when the House elected its Speaker after the 2014 elections. John Boehner got 216 votes, and was elected Speaker because only 205 were needed for a majority (only 408 House members voted).
Nancy Pelosi got 164 votes. There were 28 votes cast for people other than the two party nominees.
The only reason you’re seeing this dysfunction playing out now is that the GOP majority is so narrow that even a small group of fringe players has a lot of leverage to scuttle the whole process.
Pelosi has a 7% Liberty Score just to see how far we’ve come regardless of the chaos. When the Deep State loses control, there’s going to be chaos and that’s fine with me.
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