Well, that was fast!
Just as Republicans were losing their minds over Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota being the new nominee for House Speaker, he dropped out!
🚨 BREAKING: Tom Emmer has dropped out of the Speaker race just hours after winning the GOP conference nomination
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 24, 2023
Here’s the hilarious part.
Just before the vote, President Trump calls out Emmer for what he is.
A RINO!
Check it out here:
I’m sure all those RINOs are banging their heads right now.
Fox News shares more on the breaking story:
Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., has dropped out of the race for speaker hours after being named House Republicans’ nominee, three sources tell Fox News Digital.
Emmer won a majority of the GOP Conference on Tuesday morning after five rounds of voting, against six other potential candidates.
But it quickly became clear that he did not have enough support to outright win a House-wide vote. With Republicans’ razor-thin majority, a GOP speaker-designate can only lose four members of their own party to win the gavel without Democratic support.
At least 25 Republicans said they would not support Emmer in a House floor vote after he won the title.
More GOP lawmakers indicated after the roll call that the conference needed to move on to a new nominee.
Can we bring Rep. Jim Jordan back now?
I think this should have broken the morale of the RINOs enough to get them to vote on someone the people want finally.
🚨BREAKING: Tom Emmer has dropped out of the race for Speaker
This comes less than an hour after President Trump called him a RINO on Truth
We the People will not stop fighting until
we get a Speaker that works for the Voters, not the DC Uniparty— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) October 24, 2023
If not Jim Jordan, maybe Byron Donalds has a chance?
🚨 #BREAKING: BYRON DONALDS IS BACK IN THE RACE FOR SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AFTER TOM EMMER DROPS OUT pic.twitter.com/gYeggKyFMr
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) October 24, 2023
The Hill shares more on the breaking story:
Emmer is the third GOP Speaker nominee to fall short of the gavel in the past three weeks. The conference voted to drop Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as its nominee last week following three failed attempts to win the gavel on the House floor. Before that, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) withdrew his name from the running amid staunch opposition from Jordan supporters.
News of Emmer dropping out from the race will catapult the House GOP conference back to square one — again — as they restart the search for a new Speaker following Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) ouster from the post.
Tuesday marked exactly three weeks since eight Republicans and Democrats voted to boot McCarthy from the Speakership.
You know.
Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad without a Speaker!
At least it prevents Congress from sending billions more in foreign aid to other countries!
But, at the end of the day.
Biden will surely find a way to hand out money to other countries while our country continues into ruin.
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