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Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise have become the first two Republicans to join the race to replace Kevin McCarthy, who was voted out as Speaker in an unprecedented move on Tuesday.
His bid has already received the backing of several prominent conservatives, with Matt Gaetz - the rebel who led the coup against Mr McCarthy - writing: “My mentor Jim Jordan would be great!”
He was critically wounded by a bullet to the hip from an anti-Trump extremist who opened fire on Republican lawmakers practising for the annual congressional baseball charity match.
Born on an Air Force Base in Missouri, Mr Hern is a former aerospace engineer and McDonald’s franchisee, who owned 24 of the fast food chain’s restaurants in Oklahoma, according to his website.
Hard-liners in the House Freedom Caucus have reportedly pushed him to run for a leadership post, but his path to the 218 votes he needs to become Speaker remains unclear.
Mr Trump’s name has come up in this Republican race for Speaker, with the backing of far-right Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and others.
Except that it would grind the business of the government to a halt. Trump would get more airtime to grandstand and complain about the “Stolen Election”. His most extreme followers would be salivating over the fact that he is only 2 heartbeats away from the presidency and there is no telling what they would do to accomplish the goal of returning him to the WH. With his deranged encouragement it could literally lead to violence.
As pointed out time and time again, the MAGA caucus is interested in maximum chaos for social media clout, not governing. It will be interesting to see how much of the ‘mainstream’ GOP goes along with this idiocy.
I get the sense they are pretty spineless, because after all, who wants to anger the base and have to give up the fancy Washington restaurants to return to the sticks and live among the rubes once the inevitable MAGA primary challenger takes you out?
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Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise have become the first two Republicans to join the race to replace Kevin McCarthy, who was voted out as Speaker in an unprecedented move on Tuesday.
His bid has already received the backing of several prominent conservatives, with Matt Gaetz - the rebel who led the coup against Mr McCarthy - writing: “My mentor Jim Jordan would be great!”
He was critically wounded by a bullet to the hip from an anti-Trump extremist who opened fire on Republican lawmakers practising for the annual congressional baseball charity match.
Born on an Air Force Base in Missouri, Mr Hern is a former aerospace engineer and McDonald’s franchisee, who owned 24 of the fast food chain’s restaurants in Oklahoma, according to his website.
Hard-liners in the House Freedom Caucus have reportedly pushed him to run for a leadership post, but his path to the 218 votes he needs to become Speaker remains unclear.
Mr Trump’s name has come up in this Republican race for Speaker, with the backing of far-right Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and others.
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Trump as SoH would be the dumbest possible outcome, so I assume it is the one the GQP will pursue.
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Except that it would grind the business of the government to a halt. Trump would get more airtime to grandstand and complain about the “Stolen Election”. His most extreme followers would be salivating over the fact that he is only 2 heartbeats away from the presidency and there is no telling what they would do to accomplish the goal of returning him to the WH. With his deranged encouragement it could literally lead to violence.
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As pointed out time and time again, the MAGA caucus is interested in maximum chaos for social media clout, not governing. It will be interesting to see how much of the ‘mainstream’ GOP goes along with this idiocy.
I get the sense they are pretty spineless, because after all, who wants to anger the base and have to give up the fancy Washington restaurants to return to the sticks and live among the rubes once the inevitable MAGA primary challenger takes you out?