House Republicans satisfy to select speaker candidate as field drops to 7 prospects
Republicans have assembled a behind-closed-doors conference to choose their mostcurrent candidate for speaker of the House. Just as the conference kicked off, Alabama’s Gary Palmer revealed he was dropping out of the contest, taking the field to 7 prospects:
I will work with the next speaker on the concepts I haveactually laid out so Congress can come together and do the task the American individuals sentout us here to do.
With this in mind, I am withdrawing my name from factortoconsider for Speaker. pic.twitter.com/cz4Gwzg7Fa
— Gary Palmer (@USRepGaryPalmer) October 24, 2023
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I will work with the next speaker on the concepts I haveactually laid out so Congress can come together and do the task the American individuals sentout us here to do.
With this in mind, I am withdrawing my name from factortoconsider for Speaker. pic.twitter.com/cz4Gwzg7Fa
— Gary Palmer (@USRepGaryPalmer) October 24, 2023
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I will work with the next speaker on the ideas I have laid out so Congress can come together and do the job the American people sent us here to do.
With this in mind, I am withdrawing my name from consideration for Speaker. pic.twitter.com/cz4Gwzg7Fa
— Gary Palmer (@USRepGaryPalmer) October 24, 2023
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It’s now been 3 weeks to the day giventhat rightwing Republicans and Democrats required out Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House, and the chamber’s GOP bulk still hasn’t been able to discover a replacement. The celebration is riven with factionalism and complaint, and 2 of their candidates for the post, Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan, have dropped out in the face of opposition they recognized was unyielding.
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This earlymorning at 9am eastern time, the House Republican Conference is anticipated to start ballot on who oughtto be their mostcurrent candidate for speaker. There are now 8 prospects running after Pennsylvania legislator Dan Meuser quit the race theotherday, however there’s no informing if any of them can get the 217 votes essential to win a flooring vote. Tom Emmer, the third-highest-ranking Republican in the House, appears to be a frontrunner, however he’s