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      The problem is if they don’t get the votes for someone else’s they might settle on Jordan. This will embolden the far right, who would be in de facto control.

      If you veto everything you don’t want and hold balance of power, only what you want happens. Unfortunately, the moderates don’t use that same veto power, but step in line.

      It will be interesting to see if the moderates can work across the aisle to get a speaker that is agreeable to more Americans.

      Or will they shoot themselves in the foot with a far right speaker or no speaker and get blamed for paralysing government. The shutdown will happen in a month.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    For a brief moment, many Republicans hoped the party’s nomination of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) for speaker of the House could quickly unite their fractious conference.

    With Democrats unanimously opposed, a mere five Republican defections is enough to block Scalise from winning on the House floor — and at least 19 have already said they won’t vote for him, according to CNN’s Haley Talbot.

    “He told a lot of people he was gonna be at 150 [in the internal party vote],” McCarthy continued, “but he wasn’t there.” (Scalise beat Jordan by just 113 to 99.)

    Later Wednesday, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) — fresh off his latest indictment — posted on X that he had had “0 contact or outreach” from Scalise and that he’d oppose him “come hell or high water I won’t change my mind.”

    The news got worse on Thursday as Scalise began losing the votes of some members who’d said Wednesday that they would back him, including Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ).

    Most of the holdout members are still backing Jordan, and their most common complaint is that Scalise represents a continuation of the GOP’s establishment leadership and that a greater shakeup is necessary.


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