But there's still no guarantee the GOP's next pick for speaker will be able to secure the needed 217 votes on the House floor, as some lawmakers aren't signing a "unity" pledge.
Three weeks after Kevin McCarthy’s ouster, House Republicans will gather behind closed doors Tuesday morning to nominate a new candidate for speaker — their third attempt to fill the job.
A GOP civil war has prevented Republicans from agreeing on a successor to McCarthy, R-Calif. The GOP’s two previous picks bowed out after they failed to secure the votes needed to win on the floor, leaving the House in a state of unprecedented chaos with a possible government shutdown less than a month away and wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East.
“The world is burning around us, and American leadership is necessary. And you can’t have the full complement of American leadership if the House of Representatives is not functioning,” Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., said on NBC’s “Meet the Press NOW," emphasizing the need for his colleagues to move on and coalesce around a new leader.
Sadly, this is not the case. Every Republican who has even attempted to glance across the aisle either quit, "retired", or was primaried. As much as we'd like to believe that there are only a few GOPers who are truly at the extremes, the overwhelming majority of their voting base wants it this way. Why do you think so many people have denounced Trump, only to come back begging for forgiveness in record time?
There has got to be 5 Republicans ready to throw in the towel. Screw the maga crowd, they can go to hell.
Because they see who is pulling the orange sandwich’s strings and want to suckle at the same teat. They value money over human life. I just like to hope there just half a dozen left that have some shred of humanity left in them. A pipe dream I know…
If there were, we wouldn't be in this situation.