Reese Gorman covers Congress and campaigns for the Washington Examiner. Prior to the Washington Examiner, he covered state politics and the state legislature in Oklahoma. Follow him on X: @reesejgorman
The House Republican Conference is set to hold its speaker candidate forum on Tuesday, but members remain divided, and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is now discouraging allies from adding him to the mix.
As it stands, whoever receives a simple majority in the party's conference meeting on Wednesday will become the GOP nominee. However, that process could be complicated because more than 90 Republicans are trying to change the rules that would require any one candidate to receive 217 votes in the meeting in order to become the conference’s nominee.
The candidate forum scheduled for Tuesday should help members solidify who they will support. It is expected the proposed rule change will also be brought up in the forum and that members will discuss what that would mean for the conference moving forward. “The race for speaker of the House has become increasingly more complicated in the last week,” one GOP aide told the Washington Examiner. “Jim Jordan may be the darling of the far right, but he stands no chance courting moderates. As of now, Steve Scalise doesn’t have a clear path to 218.”
“I think you have two really, really good people,” Diaz-Balart said. “I think we're in good hands, whoever wins that race.” All this infighting within the Republican Conference is playing out just weeks before the government is set to run out of money on Nov. 17, as well as a call for aid after war broke out in Israel over the weekend. Until there is a speaker, Congress can’t conduct legislative business, leaving lawmakers with a tight deadline to advance their appropriations bills, which some Republicans already predict won’t be possible before the new deadline.
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