Rep. Steve Scalise as their nominee for speaker? Yes and NO!

So the house Republicans picked Rep. Steve Scalise as the nominee for speaker on Wednesday, but the Louisiana Republican lacks the votes needed to win the gavel and it remains unclear whether he will be able to win over any of the holdouts.



Some in the GOP do think that Scalise is facing grim prospects of becoming speaker as he confronts opposition within the ranks, a situation that threatens to prolong the GOP’s leadership crisis following Kevin McCarthy’s historic removal in recent days. So until a speaker is elected, the House remains effectively paralyzed following McCarthy’s removal, an unprecedented situation that has taken on new urgency amid Israel’s war against Hamas. Raising the stakes further, the longer it takes Republicans to elect a new speaker, the less time lawmakers will have to try to avert a government shutdown with a funding deadline looming in mid-November.



Scalise won out over Rep. Jim Jordan in a closed-door vote by the House GOP conference to pick their speaker nominee on Wednesday. The nomination was a blow to former President Donald Trump, who endorsed Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee who has made a name for himself as a staunch Trump ally.



But it quickly became clear that the fight over who will be speaker would not be rapidly resolved as a number of Republicans would not commit to voting for Scalise in a floor vote. When Republicans met behind closed doors Wednesday morning to select a speaker nominee, Scalise earned 113 votes to Jordan’s 99 putting Scalise below the 217-vote threshold needed to win the speakership in a full vote on the House floor.



The question now is whether Scalise will be able to lock down the votes he needs, a major obstacle in his path to the gavel. House Republicans hold a narrow majority and Scalise can only afford to lose four GOP votes on the floor and still win the speakership.



McCarthy’s ouster, which was driven by a group of hardline conservatives, has intensified deep divisions within the House GOP conference and escalated tensions. That threatens to make it even more challenging for Republicans to unite behind a new speaker.



It’s not yet clear when the House will hold a floor vote to elect a new speaker. House Republicans adjourned the chamber on Wednesday without scheduling a vote.



Scalise began meeting individually with GOP members later in the day as he and his whip operation try to convince more than a dozen holdouts to back him on the floor, according to multiple GOP sources.



Jordan is also working to convince his colleagues who voted for him to join him in supporting Scalise as Republicans try to avoid another messy floor fight. Jordan plans to vote for Scalise on the floor and is encouraging his colleagues to do the same, the source said. But it’s not yet clear if that will be enough to secure the needed votes.



“I’m not supporting Steve Scalise, I’ll be voting for Jim Jordan,” Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia told CNN’s Manu Raju. “Well, Jim Jordan presented a strong plan for a us, a detailed plan on how to move forward. We didn’t hear that plan from Steve Scalise. It was more vague answers.”



Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky wrote on X, “Surprises are for little kids at birthday parties, not Congress. So, I let Scalise know in person that he doesn’t have my vote on the floor, because he has not articulated a viable plan for avoiding an omnibus” a reference to a sweeping package of spending bills.



Later, Massie warned that Scalise has a tough fight ahead of him to secure the gavel. “I think there’s at least 20,” members ready to not vote for Scalise on the floor, he told reporters. McCarthy said that he will support Scalise, but said he hasn’t been involved in any conversations with the holdouts.



“Steve is going to have to talk to them all, see what their concerns are, but I support Steve,” he told reporters. Asked if he was trying to sway any holdouts, he said, “No.” The nomination vote quickly set off a scramble to fill other spots in GOP leadership. Oklahoma GOP Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma announced on Wednesday that he will run for the position of majority leader.



According to a spokesperson for Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, he is also running to become majority leader. A source familiar also told CNN that House Majority Whip Tom Emmer is making calls to members to be majority leader if Scalise is elected speaker.





During the closed-door meeting where Republicans nominated Scalise as speaker, the conference also rejected an effort to raise the threshold required to select a GOP speaker nominee a proposal that was aimed at preventing a messy public fight on the House floor.



The rules change would have raised the threshold to select a speaker nominee from a majority of the GOP conference or 111 votes to 217 votes, a majority of the full House, the number required to win the speaker’s gavel when the entire chamber holds its vote. Scalise has risen through the ranks of leadership during his time in Congress. In the position of House majority leader, Scalise has served as the second-highest-ranking House Republican after McCarthy, prior to the historic vote to oust the speaker.



Scalise is a prominent figure in the House GOP conference and has long been seen as either a potential successor, or rival, to McCarthy. Before he became majority leader, Scalise served as House GOP whip, a role focused on vote counting and ensuring support for key party priorities. The majority leader, his current role, oversees the House floor and schedules legislation for votes.



The Louisiana Republican is no stranger to adversity. A shooting in 2017 left him seriously wounded, with a grueling, monthslong recovery process. Scalise was shot by a gunman who opened fire as congressional Republicans were practicing for an annual charity baseball game.



In August, Scalise announced that he had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, which he described as “a very treatable blood cancer.” In September, Scalise told reporters that in response to treatment, his cancer “has dropped dramatically.”

And so it's being reported that Scalise WON'T get the job due to not having full backing and is expected to drop out. He's fighting blood Cancer which is no joke. He shouldn't risk health for a job that seems he doesn't care to fight to get.

Personally I think JIM JORDAN or MATT GAETZ Should be the next Speaker of the house... I think either is a long shot but both could do a great job. Time to get this GOP house in order and let's get someone willing to get things done for the country and to stop Joe Biden from his over spending.

Speaker Jim Jordan? HELL YEAH!!

The Republicans speaker choices to me is a toss up between Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan or MTG Marjorie Taylor Greene. But above them all if they were serious on getting Donald Trump in the seat I'd be 100% in that boat over everyone else. Steve Scalise would be good but I think he might end up as Trumps next VP. This is a hunch I have.



With that said Trump himself said he would back Jim Jordan who to me is ideal for the role as he's probably the most fun to listen to in the congress when speaks. Also he's a big personality who backs TRUMP 100% and to be honest if we get Orange man back in the President seat with a Jim Jordan and no Nasty Pelosi trying to destroy him the REPUBLICANS might actually be able to do great things. Remember Trump was President with the worst, and most corrupt person possibly in this nations history to hold "Speaker of the House" in "Nasty Nancy Pelosi."



So Jim? YEAH i'm with that move this also allows Matt Gaetz to take on the Governors job in the next elections and Florida gets DeSanitized! (Sorry had to go there.)



Now we do have to watch out for Rinos running for the position and so what Matt did with Kevin when they debated for two days and Kevin agreed to their rules it was brilliant. I think here if Jim is the nomination Matt, and MTG will have no issues with this one cause Jim is on the same team. But also we want to know as people who would back this is does he have any kind of relationship with Mitch McConnell?



Jim Jordan said this week when asked this he said it’s “fine” and “good.” Um … sure. Perfect answer as we know Mitch McConnell is a total RINO! But he's been there since the Titanic went down or maybe when the first great depression. Maybe he wants to live through two and is why he's such a Rino. But I do find it funny how Chuck Schummer ran ads on TV, and the NET with the slogan "Ditch Mitch" and these ads were when Mitch were running for re-election. Now you would think that Mitch would be less friendly with someone who ran ads against him but the SWAMP does this.



They run ads against their comrade Rinos while behind the scenes they love to help each other, and I've seen this happen before. So Jim who can't show discontent for another Republican that openly in the Swamp with one of the biggest Rino Swamp heads in there. So his answer again ideal from my POV.



Remember Mitch has done his share to burn down the Senate, god only knows how much McConnell does believes in a kind of old-school decorum that Jordan has utterly rejected. They’re stylistically polar opposites. And then there’s Ukraine aid, which McConnell backs and Jordan staunchly opposes.



Speaker Jordan will need to understand where Kevin failed and make sure that he doesn't repeat those mistakes himself, and so with the whole thing happening with Trump in courts some are also asking with as vocal as Jordan has been about that day just how much does Jordan know about January 6?



Daughter of one Rino, and a Rino anti Trump herself and one of the biggest liars, and ugliest humans alive "Liz Cheney" said that Jordan “knew more” about Trump’s January 6 plans “than any other” member of Congress. “Jim Jordan was involved, was part of the conspiracy in which Donald Trump was engaged as he attempted to overturn the election,” she said in a speech in Minnesota. If he becomes speaker and Democrats are doing their job, they’ll say “Jim Jordan” and “January 6” with the frequency that Rudy Giuliani used to say “9/11.” We now know the truth is something Liz doesn't want to talk about.



How when Trump offered the National Guard her BFF Nasty Nancy Pelosi, and DC Mayor BowWow Muriel Bowser both rejected help, and some of the footage I personally recorded while the 1/6 event were going down it was clear there were people there who were working with someone NOT related to Trump supporters trying to lure people into the capitol.



Some names are known some are not. I have a friend who went that day and went inside. His tale on what he saw never changed and his claims don't match the exact details of the witches claims (Pelosi & Chaney) but my friend is now sitting in prison for entering and taking some plates, a jacket and hoodie which was said to belong to a police officer.



As for claims that once inside people were violent he swore that wasn't the case and from what saw streaming live on YouTube from different outlets that seemed to be what was shown. The only person shot and killed that day inside was Ashli Babbitt a Trump supporter by a secret service agent for Nasty Nancy Pelosi. And the footage by Tucker Carlson also shows that the whole real "BIG LIE" is being told by Pelosi, Bowser, Chaney, and the entire Anti Trump shit show in DC courts.



BUT sure, today’s GOP is not a normal political party? Some say. But neither is the Democrats which is why I'm an Independent... As for whoever sits in that Speaker chair from the Republican side for he or she to “succeed” in the sense that he will adequately represent all the extreme and unhinged things the two party's now stand for.



But it's like every job nobody knows how it will go until you're doing the job so as speaker he will confront reality in the form of process and other things he needs to pass like spending bills and how to cut deals with the Senate and the White House. Everything about Jordan’s career suggests that he will do a fine job operatically at this.



He's a fair and outspoken person but most important is his attention to detail and how to plead his side or case. Traits a good Speaker needs and one Pelosi and Kevin did not have. These are qualities Ted Cruz also has so he would also be someone fun up there as I love how he debates. But to me I can sleep better knowing it's Jordan, Trump or MTG as Speaker. These 3 give me the best chance knowing that at least it's not Nasty Nancy Pelosi.



The Hammer that hit her husband should have hit that Witch... The day she bites the dust (she's already becoming dust right in front of our eyes.. LOL Old hag!) for good I'm throwing a BLOCK PARTY! Well for her, Hillary Clinton, and a current administrations Joe "Lying" Biden and his lying side kick Moronic Kamala Harris "The Indian GIANT liar!" By the way to end it here. There is no Jamaica or INDIA in Africa so next time they say she's "Black African American" that's a lie. Her roots all trace back to INDIA. Even her father.



The family like the Biden family were big on trading slaves. Unlike the Trump family. They never were involved in the "Slave" thing... That's for my black friends to remember when you want to ask who the real racists are again during the 2024 elections.

Funny tho unlike last time with Kevin McCarthy there wont be a televised debate to be the next speaker of the House of Representatives is off. After that last one I can see why.

 Friday, only hours after speaker candidates Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, and Kevin Hern apparently agreed to a live, televised debate on Fox News, all three backed out. It’s not entirely clear why they suddenly canceled the debate, but it’s likely that it was the result of an entirely warranted freakout from their caucus’s more moderate members or since they're pretty much on the MAGA train why bother?

A televised debate for the speakers job was a again something that could have been fun given the names but one which would probably be again a stupid idea, one that would have made the already difficult job nearly impossible to do.

But I don't think this will be an issue because I'm pretty sure Jim will get in without much hesitation.