Tom Emmer drops out of contention for House speaker, hours after winning GOP nomination
Tom Emmer drops out of contention for House speaker, hours after winning GOP nomination
Rep. Tom Emmer dropped his bid for speaker of the House of Representatives, just hours after he secured the nomination, with former President Donald Trump and dozens of Republican lawmakers expressing opposition to his candidacy.
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Have the Republicans that vote against Mccarthy and the ones that voted against Jordan sit down and make a list of every representative they would vote for. Then nominate one they agree on.
The right is too far right of the moderates to agree on anything. They need a few purple state moderates to lay down the future of their seat and sit down with the Democrats and work out a compromise. Being in a purple state and you save the house it just might work out for them. Current course is likely to get them all primaried OR replaced with a Democrat next election.
get them all primaried OR replaced with a Democrat next election
I feel like that's their choice right now. Work with democrats? Get primaried. Don't work with democrats? Democrats win the election.
Working with democrats is poison to the republican base and it's not like democrats are going to vote for a republican as their nominee just because they decided to have a somewhat functioning government.
Nevermind, they went with an election denier that would love to drag us into fascistism as fast as possible. Hopefully every R in a purple district is replaced come election time.