2023-10-11 05:00:00
Republican Representative from Ohio, Jim Jordan, is one of the candidates for the position of speaker of the United States House of Representatives. MICHAEL REYNOLDS | EFE
The two confirmed candidates, Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan, have enough support to aspire to be his replacement
11 oct 2023 . Updated at 05:00 a.m.
A day before the first vote is held to elect the new majority leader and speaker of the US House of Representatives, Republican lawmakers remain deeply divided. Neither of the two confirmed candidates, Steve Scalise y Jim Jordangathers, for the moment, enough support to take office.
On Wednesday, they will have the first opportunity to choose McCarthy’s successor. First they will vote within the conservative group. If one of the candidates obtained a majority (111 votes among the 221 Republican congressmen), his candidacy would then go to the House. At least that’s what the rules have dictated up to this point. But that’s where the divisions end. A group of Republicans—Jordan, among them, as he told CNN— They are committed to changing the number of necessary supports to 217, a change that could occur before the vote. Scalise’s supporters, for their part, were against the change, arguing that it would be unfair to modify the process halfway through.
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Once the winning candidacy reaches the Lower House, the potential speaker will have to convince 218 congressmen (out of a total of 433) to vote for him to win the gavel. In January, those votes came entirely from the Republican bench. That’s right, they had to vote 15 times.
Proof of the division that is accumulating in the Republican ranks is that, on Monday night, during a meeting of the group in the Capitol, at least three congressmen would have assured that they would only vote for Kevin McCarthy to lead the majority. On Tuesday, according to the media Politician, the former leader’s supporters planned to nominate him.
The same day, McCarthy, who was not present at the meeting, presented to the press an aid plan for Israel after the weekend attacks. We must be there for our friend, Israel he stated. During the presentation, which took place in the Rayburn room, which usually hosts the House president’s press conferences, McCarthy also hinted at his discontent with his dismissal. Will our conference choose someone to terminate in another 35 days? he asked himself. Asked about his desire to recover the chair that presides over the hall of the House of Representatives, McCarthy stated that it did not depend on him and that it was his decision.
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