Rep. Tom Emmer has officially announced his intentions to become the next U.S. House speaker following the unprecedented removal of Rep. Kevin McCarthy earlier this month.
On Saturday morning, Emmer tweeted that he would be running for the position “to bring our conference together and get back to work.”
Emmer went on to say that, in the last 10 months with a Republican majority in the House, “our Conference has shown what we can accomplish when we come together as a team. … Our conference remains at a crossroads and the deck is stacked against us. We have no choice but to fight like hell to hold on to our House Majority and deliver on our conservative agenda.”
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Tom Emmer has officially announced his intentions to become the next U.S. House speaker following the unprecedented removal of Rep. Kevin McCarthy earlier this month.
Late Friday, Minnesota Congressman Brad Finstad announced that he would support Emmer for Speaker of the House:
In the interim period since McCarthy’s ouster, Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry has been serving as speaker pro tempore.
Earlier this month, Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips said he did not regret his vote to remove McCarthy, and suggested his colleague Emmer as a replacement.
Soon after the GOP conference dropped Jordan as its speaker nominee, some Republicans began thinking about whether they should take a shot at the speakership.
Hern had earlier considered running after McCarthy’s ouster and said in a letter to colleagues that he “called, texted or met” with all 221 Republicans in the conference to ask what they wanted to see in their next speaker.
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