House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) will again run for Speaker, after narrowly losing the nomination to Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) just days ago.

His challenger will be Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.), who filed to run Friday.

  • Conyak@lemmy.tf
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    1 year ago

    Perhaps I’m missing something but why would you have to settle for any GOP candidate at this point? I mean unless you support the party itself why settle for the best of the worst at all when they don’t have a chance of getting elected with the Q cult refusing to support him?

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      1 year ago

      Because both halves of the party would let the world burn before they voted for a Democrat for speaker. They may not have the first clue who they want, but they can all agree that it won’t be a Democrat. It’s going to be a Republican, one way or the other. The best we can hope for is “least shitty option”, And right now, Austin “I’m only partially bigoted” Scott is the least shitty option that’s been put forth.

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        1 year ago

        There are 212 Democrat house members and 217 votes are needed to elect a speaker. Getting 5 moderate Republicans to vote with Democrats seems just as plausible to me as getting the Republicans to agree right now.

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          There’s gotta be 5 Republicans willing to retire to get this done