Well the Republican clown car just took another u-turn, the Republican nominee for speaker was just nominated when a voice on high said “No!” and they all quaked and bowed to their orange hair idol.
Rep. Tom Emmer withdraws bid for House speaker hours after winning GOP nomination
AP News
By LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES, FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING
October 24, 2023Republican Tom Emmer abruptly abandoned his bid to become House speaker Tuesday, withdrawing hours after winning the internal party nomination once it became clear he would not have enough support from GOP colleagues for the gavel.
Emmer, the GOP Whip, reversed course after Donald Trump objected to his nomination and hardliners in the House denied the party leader the votes he would need.
He is the third Republican to fall short, leaving dejected Republicans no closer to resolving the chaos they have created since ousting Kevin McCarthy at the start of the month.
Trump, speaking as he left the courtroom in New York where he faces business fraud charges, said his “un-endorsement” must have had an impact on Emmer’s bid.
“He wasn’t MAGA,” said Trump, the party’s front-runner for the 2024 presidential election, referring to his Make America Great Again campaign slogan.
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Attention quickly turned to Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, a lower-ranking member of House GOP leadership, who was the second highest vote-getter on Tuesday’s internal ballots. A lawyer specializing in constitutional issues, he had rallied Republicans around Trump’s legal effort to overturn the 2020 election results.
Having rejected the top replacements, Majority Leader Steve Scalise and the Trump-backed Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, there is no longer any obvious choice for the job.
One Republican faction doesn’t want a MAGA in the Speaker seat and the other Republican faction wants a Trump backed MAGE and neither faction has enough votes to elect a Speaker.
And don’t forget that…
The federal government risks a shutdown in a matter of weeks if Congress fails to pass funding legislation by a Nov. 17 deadline to keep services and offices running. More immediately, President Joe Biden has asked Congress to provide $105 billion in aid — to help Israel and Ukraine amid their wars and to shore up the U.S. border with Mexico. Federal aviation and farming programs face expiration without action.
From what has been going on with the election of another Speaker it appears Trump is acting like a defacto president; calling all the shots. Electing a Speaker whose allegiance is to him and not the Constitutional process?
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