The Last Candidate to Run for Speaker? The Answer to Jordan’s Question to Biden at the Second House of Representatives (after McCarthy’s ouster)
Mr. Jordan lost his bid for speaker after just 86 votes were cast in a secret ballot to decide if he should stay in the race. That’s less than 40 percent of House Republicans.
First, Steve Scalise defeated Mr. Jordan in the secret ballot Republican House conference vote, 113-99, a tally that gave Mr. Jordan about 45 percent of the conference.
Hern considered running for speaker after McCarthy’s ouster, but did not officially enter the race at that time. He opened 24 Mcdonalds restaurants and worked on the company’s leadership team before entering politics. He is the chair of the Republican Study Committee, a large group of fiscal conservatives. The RSC is viewed as a springboard to leadership roles – former chairs include Scalise, Jordan, and Mike Johnson.
The current leadership team includes Palmer as the policy chair. He’s a conservative who is pledging to focus on fiscal responsibility and focus on showing a contrast with Democrats.
Scott is going into the speaker’s race again this month. He challenged Jordan for the nomination in the second secret ballot election. Scott is one of the two candidates, along with Emmer, who did not object to certifying President Biden’s 2020 electoral college victory.
First elected in 1996, Sessions is the most senior candidate in the field. He is a former chair of the House Judiciary Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Republicans will vote in a multi-round secret ballot election on Tuesday. The lowest vote getter will be eliminated from the race and members will vote again. It could take a long time. If a candidate drops out of his or her agreement and supports someone else, the process will go on in a different direction.
Once a nominee is chosen, he’ll face the same question that Jordan and Scalise and McCarthy did before him: Can he lock up 217 votes for his bid to succeed on the floor? There are currently 221 Republicans in the House.
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“What we have is a complete breakdown of what we’ve done for the last 200 years,” Flood said. The pledge says that we’re going to support the speaker with the majority of the votes in the conference. It’s been done for 200 years. It’s simple, but unfortunately, it’s necessary.”
Johnson was elected to the House Republican Conference in 2016 and is now their vice chair. He is an attorney and served in the Louisiana state legislature before coming to Congress. He is a member of the Judiciary and armed services committees.
Current Republican whip, Emmer is seen as a possible front-runner. He could be in for a fight at the conference. For one, he’s not as closely aligned with or embraced by former President Trump as someone like Jordan was. Only two candidates voted to certify the 2020 election results, and he is one of them. He’s also already in leadership, which means he brings experience to the role. But that position could also make him a target for the members who have called for a fresh face or a total leadership reset.
Elected in 2020, Donalds is the most junior member running for speaker. He is a member of the House Freedom Caucus and has quickly made a name for himself in conservative circles. Many of Kevin McCarthy’s opponents came up with Donalds as an alternate choice to be the next Speaker of the House. He would be the first Black speaker of the House, thanks to endorsements from the Tea Party.
Bergman is a retired Marine and is touting his 40 years of military service and experience on the Armed Services and Veterans’ committees. He is stressing that he is campaigning for the job only for the rest of the Congress.
Eight members remain in the race after Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., dropped out during a Monday meeting. The House can’t move legislation on the floor to give aid to Israel or allocate government funding past the 17th of November because there isn’t a speaker.
Three weeks after Republicans voted to oust Kevin McCarthy, they are going to pick a new speaker.
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“Democracy is messy sometimes, but it is our system,” Johnson told reporters at a press conference after the vote. We are going to restore your faith in what we are doing and we are also going to move quickly to form a new government. The group here has the ability to govern.
Members celebrated Johnson’s selection by inviting reporters into the room where GOP members had been meeting, and voting all day. Cheers rang out and members changed “Mike” as reporters raised questions about Johnson’s viability on the House floor.
Johnson won 128 votes to become the GOP nominee for speaker but Republicans held one additional vote to test if holdouts would get on board. When roughly 20 members did not show up for the meeting, Johnson was left with just 13 hours to shore up his support.
After a long day on Capitol Hill that saw Republicans repeating their nominating process for the fifth time this year, the late night vote came to an end. It took 15 rounds of voting on the House floor to elect their first choice, Kevin McCarthy of California.
The past three weeks have left some House GOP members frustrated and angry. Three weeks after McCarthy’s ousting, members have not moved closer together, some began reverting to votes for McCarthy.
People on the far-right continued to vote for Jim Jordan. Jordan dropped out of the race last week when Republicans voted for him to step aside after losing three rounds of balloting on the House floor. Others
The latest round of closed-door voting began after 8pm on Tuesday with many members absent. 31 of the 204 members cast a ballot for someone who isn’t a declared candidate, which shows that many members aren’t happy with their options.
That number grew as the subsequent voting rounds wore on. By the last ballot, McCarthy came in second place with Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., the actual declared second candidate, coming in third.