Will the third time be the charm? Republicans failed to rally around their first two picks to succeed Kevin McCarthy as speaker.
Texas’ Pete Sessions is vying against senior leaders and rising stars as the GOP tries again to end the paralysis.
When the job slipped away from him, two senior and broadly popular underlings tried to fill it. Neither came close to hitting 217: Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio.. Jordan ended up stymied by 25 defections on the third humiliating ballot in the full House on Friday, after which the majority of the conference – meaning, the tally included many who truly wanted him to become speaker – stripped him of the nomination.
The process could take hours. Candidates could drop out preemptively, cutting the number of rounds needed. Rep. Gary Palmer of Alabama, two slots below Emmer as chair of the House Republican Policy Committee.
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