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Scalise called himself "David Duke without the baggage." So there's that to look forward to...
He spoke at Duke's convention:
In 2002, Scalise was a speaker at a convention for the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO), a group which was founded by David Duke. This became known in 2014 after political blogger Lamar White, Jr. uncovered anonymous comments from 2002 on Stormfront, a white supremacist website, which made reference to Scalise as a 2002 speaker at the convention. source
Yeah he definitely sounds like a big enough of a racist piece of shit to be popular with Republicans.
You can just say Nazi
Saying that is literally the baggage.
This was only a private GOP vote.
For the actual vote on the floor, some reps may still vote for Jordan, e.g. Boebert has said that she will vote for Jordan.
So there's still a chance that these fucktards can't rally enough votes to elect a speaker.
This whole "private vote first" relies on republicans keeping their word...
I would be incredibly surprised if the first actual vote they all voted together. There's gonna be at least one that immediately goes back on their word.
What's the record again?
15 rounds of voting I think
Those are rookie numbers!
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Oh thank God! Only the white supremacist. We really dodged a bullet there!
Right. Now they got a competent person but it was.
Do you choose death or death? Decide.
What, we're out of cake again?
We only had the two bits.
We didn't expect such a rush!
knock me over with a feather that Santos’s endorsement of Jordan didn’t win the day
We really dodged a bullet there!
Nope, tempting as it is, I'm not gonna touch that one.
Seems like he got 113 votes. Votes needed for a simple majority was 111.
And he'll need 217 votes to win the Speakership position. Will some of the 111 vote for him when it's Scalise vs Jeffries? Sure, but if 8 Republicans vote against him, he won't succeed.
This isn't the official vote, this is the Republicans holding a private meeting before the official vote, and then saying that, as a party, when they hold the real vote they will all vote for Scalise as a bloc.
Only some of the Freedumb Caucus have said they won't go along. If enough don't, then we're back to eleventy billion votes again.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Today, I’ll be introducing an expulsion resolution to rid the People’s House of fraudster George Santos,” Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, R-N.Y., said in a post on the social media platform X.
Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., confirmed to reporters that he offered a motion to table or kill the proposed rules change that would raise the threshold needed by a speaker candidate to head to the floor.
In a closed-door meeting last night, Jordan proposed a novel plan to avert a government shutdown next month and pass spending bills if he becomes House speaker.
House Republicans will huddle behind closed doors today and vote to nominate a successor to McCarthy — but many remained pessimistic that the full chamber will quickly elect the winner.
Four of the former Ohio State University wrestlers who have accused Jordan of failing to protect them from a sexual predator when he was the team’s assistant coach in the 1980s and ‘90s said yesterday that he has no business being the next speaker of the House.
The wrestlers’ decisions to weigh in adds a new dimension to the speaker race, bringing in a controversial part of Jordan’s past that continues to hang over the Ohio Republican and staunch ally of former President Donald Trump.
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