Highlights: After Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) fell short of the votes he needed on the House floor a third time, House Republicans voted to ditch Jordan as their party’s speaker nominee. Jordan lost the closed-door secret ballot vote 112 to 86.
The tremendously difficult challenge is that just one GOP candidate somehow needs to unite nearly all members of both camps, even though they have seemingly irreconcilable demands.
With such long-established, high-profile Republicans falling flat, several much less well-known members of Congress will now try their luck. Reps. Kevin Hern (R-OK), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Austin Scott (R-GA), Byron Donalds (R-FL), and Mike Johnson (R-LA) declared their candidacies Friday afternoon after the GOP voted to drop Jordan.
The GOP’s new speaker candidates have little national profile. But perhaps it will take someone who is less firmly associated with either the existing leadership or the hardline-right faction to unite the GOP — someone who can make nice-sounding promises to both sides.
I’d love to see the utter chaos when the republicans try to order pizza. You know it’s gotta get ugly. You’d have Kevin McCarthy saying “let’s order pepperoni and extra cheese” then Matt Gaetz is like “I swear to god if I don’t get some Italian sausage I’m gonna call my daddy and tell him I don’t feel good so he’ll pick me up early.” Then Jim Jordan tries to step in and suggest mushrooms, onions, and bell peppers and the party absolutely loses their shit. Meanwhile Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps screaming about getting toothpaste instead of tomato sauce and Lauren Boebert calls her an idiot for wanting the wrong kind of toothpaste.
worst night at pizza hut ever I only wanted a Bigfoot.
This absolutely needs to be a SNL skit.
I thought we were in the "Jesus H Tapdancing Christ what is wrong with these absolute fucksticks" era
That's every era
It's interesting to note that 4 out of the 5 people that were brought up as candidates for Speaker are traitors. Each of them voted to overturn the election results on January 6th.
The one who didn't, Austin Scott, actually signed his name to a letter to Congressional leadership stating that Congress doesn't have the authority to object to the EC votes absent an investigation by one or more states into the validity of their slate of electors. He also attended Biden's inauguration, and is on record condemning the violence of the Jan 6th protestors. So… there's probably no way the majority of the Republicans will ever vote for him.
That being said, he is incredibly racist. So there's a chance.
Imma post this pic from last time. I bet AOC is still laughing her ass off.
The GOP aren't a single political party. They're two (or more) bad kids in their granddad's trench coat. Break 'em up. Get on with it.
If the GOP breaks up then suddenly ranked choice might have a shot.
Lets see what they drag out of the septic tank as the next speaker candidate.
kinda telling that when you have a vote that can't be gerrymandered the democrat gets the most votes everytime
I see a bow tie, I cringe.
Les Nessman.
With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly
"…hitting the ground like… wet sacks of concrete…"
Which, to come full circle, describes this whole clusterfuck.
How many old people are on here?
Hey now watch it.
I can’t (macular degeneration).
I meant don’t call me old lol. I’m under 50.
I caught the reruns, didn't see it first time around.
"That was a great record. Here's another."
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) is making calls to run for speaker, Punchbowl News reports.
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), who is also in leadership, is making calls to run for speaker, CNN reports.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) is also running for speaker, Politico reports.
Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) is also running, Punchbowl News reports.
Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI) is running, Politico reports.
Now they gotta widdle down 5 candidates to 2 then 1 in just 25 days before the government closes. No pressure
Who?
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It shouldn't be an issue for political candidates to be unknown. The opposite is nepotism for the ruling class where you elect a president because his dad was a prior president. Fuck that.
Typically you don’t get into house leadership, especially the top rank of the entire house, without some experience under your belt. This has nothing to do with regular elections tbh
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Right-wing holdouts deposed McCarthy and doomed Scalise’s speakership bid by insisting on a hardliner as speaker.
But those holdouts have now been counterbalanced by a newly emerged bloc of mainstream members who took down Jordan and are insisting the speaker not be a hardliner.
The tremendously difficult challenge is that just one GOP candidate somehow needs to unite nearly all members of both camps, even though they have seemingly irreconcilable demands.
Reps. Kevin Hern (R-OK), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Austin Scott (R-GA), Byron Donalds (R-FL), and Mike Johnson (R-LA) declared their candidacies Friday afternoon after the GOP voted to drop Jordan.
But perhaps it will take someone who is less firmly associated with either the existing leadership or the hardline-right faction to unite the GOP — someone who can make nice-sounding promises to both sides.
The mainstream and swing district members generally want to get the House back open and elect a speaker — they just had specific grievances against Jordan — but they’d likely support Generic Republican for the job.
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Was this all just a ploy to get Junior Gordon Liddy into the speaker's office?
