Emmer jumped ahead as the top vote-getter on early round ballots Tuesday and had been battling Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana on a fifth ballot.
By Lisa Mascaro, Stephen Groves, Farnoush Amiri and Kevin Freking, Associated PressRep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., arrives as Republicans meet to decide who to nominate to be the new House speaker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023.
In early round ballots the senior-most lawmaker, Rep. Tom Emmer, the GOP Whip, jumped out front as the top vote-getter among the hodge-podge list of mostly lesser-known congressmen for speaker, a powerful position second in line to the presidency. But it’s no sure path to the gavel, where a majority vote will be needed by Republicans behind closed doors — and eventually in a House floor vote.
Also withdrawing from the race: Reps. Austin Scott of Georgia, Jack Bergman of Michigan, Pete Sessions of Texas, Gary Palmer of Alabama and Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania. Those running for speaker are mostly conservatives and election deniers, who either voted against certifying the 2020 presidential election results, when Biden defeated Trump, in the run up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, or joined a subsequent lawsuit challenging the results.
Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, the hard-right leader who engineered McCarthy’s ouster, has said several of those who were running — Hern, Donalds or Johnson would make a “phenomenal” choice for speaker.
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