The Hill reports:
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) dropped out of the Speaker’s race on Tuesday, just hours after the conference nominated the Minnesota Republican for the top job, according to a source familiar.
Emmer withdrew his name from the running after a contingent of Republicans made clear they would not back him on the House floor, making it virtually impossible for him to secure enough votes to win the gavel.
It also came after former President Trump released a scathing statement calling Emmer a “RINO” and saying voting for him “would be a tragic mistake.” Emmer won the GOP nomination over House GOP Vice Chairman Mike Johnson (La.) in a secret ballot 117-97, but in a secondary roll call vote 26 Republicans voted present or for another person.
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#BREAKING: Tom Emmer drops out of Speaker’s race https://t.co/h3KeMjcbr6
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I’m convinced every House Republican, all 222 of them, have an individual plan to become Speaker. And we are going to find out, day by day, what each plan is.
The Republicans are failing the country with this chaos. They can’t govern. Democrats can. We need a bipartisan path… https://t.co/UOBFL3bvml
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