House speaker succession battle heats up: Jordan, Scalise and Trump in the mix – By Christina Wilkie (CNBC) / Oct 4, 2023
- Republicans plan to hold a speaker candidate forum next Tuesday, followed by a possible vote on Wednesday.
- So far, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise are frontrunners. The two men have very different pitches for their colleagues.
- Winning 218 votes in a caucus so bitterly divided, with so little margin for error, will be difficult for anyone.
WASHINGTON — The House speaker’s gavel is up for grabs for the second time this year, and for the second time, that contest is threatening to divide the Republican caucus along ideological lines.
Reps. Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise are the top candidates to replace Kevin McCarthy, who was voted out as speaker in an unprecedented move Tuesday.
But a wild-card candidate floated by two House members was Donald Trump, the former and would-be president who faces four criminal indictments and several pending major civil lawsuits.
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