U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., told Newsmax on Wednesday that Republicans should not go to a floor vote until the conference is solidly behind one candidate to replace Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as House speaker...
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., told Newsmax on Wednesday that Republicans should not go to a floor vote until the conference is solidly behind one candidate to replace Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as House speaker.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., defeated Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, in a secret ballot earlier Wednesday, but whether Scalise has the 217 votes needed to prevail in a floor vote was unknown. Republicans are trying to avoid a repeat of the chaos surrounding McCarthy’s election in January, when it took 15 ballots to make him speaker. House Democrats, led by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., have seized on the GOP’s trouble ruling as a unified party.
“One thing that concerned me from the very beginning,” McCormick told “American Agenda.” “I've been very clear in the conference. We should have before we go to the house floor. That makes sense to me. I'm just a Marine. I'm a simple guy. “But if you're going to go out in front of the public, if you're going to have this debate publicly, I don't want to hear about Jeffries over and over again. I don’t want to hear how unified they are and how broken we are. I want to make sure we as a conference come out swinging together and that we've unified behind one candidate, and I hope that happens before we go to the floor.
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