FOX News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram has updates on the vote for a House speaker on 'Hannity.'
GOP fight over next House speaker is playing out like a ‘bad episode of VEEP’ says BK, SI Rep. Nicole MalliotakisThursday after a fellow House Republican repeated left-wing claims that he had attended a white supremacist conference in the past and called himself “David Duke without the baggage.”
“In that time, however, I have never seen him display racial intolerance. I count him amongst my friends and I wouldn’t if I felt otherwise.” “I would be doing an enormous disservice to the voters that I represent in South Carolina if I were to do that.”Mace: I will vote for Jim Jordan on the floor. I personally cannot, in good conscience, vote for someone who attended a white supremacist conference and compared himself to David Duke. .hosted by the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, a group founded by notorious neo-Nazi and former Klu Klux Klan leader David Duke.
The South Carolina lawmaker backed Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan for the speakership and told Tapper she would vote for him on the House floor.
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