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House Republicans settled on Rep. Steve Scalise , the current majority leader, as their pick to replace deposed former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy .
Scalise beat out Rep. Jim Jordan in a vote that signals continuity with the current House GOP leadership team instead of the rightward move that would have likely followed a Jordan victory.While the selection means Scalise will probably become the next speaker, it remains to be seen whether Republicans will stick together to ensure his victory in a formal House vote.
With a narrow majority over Democrats in the House, Republicans would need 217 of their 221 members to vote for the GOP candidate to ensure his win.The fallout from that vote has been bitter infighting that led to a delay in the House GOP’s selection of a nominee. Scalise was elected to Congress in 2008 after serving in the Louisiana legislature. He quietly but steadily worked his way up in the party leadership, becoming the third-ranking House Republican as whip in 2013 and then moving up to the second-in-command majority leader after Republicans won back the House in the 2022 elections.,” a reference to the former Ku Klux Klan white supremacist Louisiana politician.
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