Steve Scalise has withdrawn from the race to become House Speaker as Republicans struggle to agree on whom to elect to lead the caucus in Congress.

Republicans voted by a narrow margin on Wednesday to nominate Scalise to replace McCarthy, but several lawmakers said after the closed-door meeting that they would not vote for him on the House floor. The number of hold-outs grew over the next 24 hours, making it clear that Scalise was nowhere close to securing the 217 votes he needed to secure the gavel.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Guess we dodged the bullet of having an overt white supremacist as the Speaker of the House.

    We’ll see what fresh horror the GOP tries to unleash on us next, I suppose.