Republican colleagues call Steve Scalise a fighter, but the nominee for House speaker may be in for a brawl.
With his walker positioned on the mound, Rep. Steve Scalise threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Washington Nationals ballpark, a breathtaking comeback for the Republican congressman who just months earlier was fighting for his life after a gunman had opened fire on lawmakers at their own charity baseball game practice.
Once Republicans took majority control in the 2010 election “tea party” wave of hardline lawmakers to Congress, Scalise soon became part of the House leadership team alongside McCarthy and others under then-Speaker John Boehner. During an interview later on C-SPAN, Scalise described asking the medic as he was being airlifted to the hospital to call his wife back home in LouisianaNo one picked up the phone but his wife saved the voice mail message he left her that day, and listening back to it, he said, is tough.
Behind closed doors Wednesday, Scalise’s wife, Jennifer, joined the private meeting, sending a message that her husband’s blood cancer would not slow him down.
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