Trump backed the Ohio Republican for House speaker just after midnight
Good morning, US politics blog readers. Just after midnight, Donald Trump weighed in on the race for speaker of the House of Representatives, endorsing prominent conservative Jim Jordan to fill the role. It’s a significant development considering that Trump is the far-and-away frontrunner for the party’s presidential nomination next year, but it, alone, is not expected to decide who next sits in the chair Kevin McCarthy was shockingly booted from earlier this week.
Majority leader Steve Scalise remains in the race, and seen by some as the frontrunner, given his position as the party’s number-two in the House. And we still may see new candidates emerge, such as Kevin Hern, chair of the large and influential Republican Study Committee.
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