2023-10-13 22:35:42
In the turbulent race for the presidency of the US House of Representatives, the Republicans narrowly chose hardliner Jim Jordan as the new candidate in an internal election. According to consistent US media reports, former President Donald Trump’s confidant received 124 votes in the vote in the parliamentary group meeting behind closed doors on Friday. However, 55 Republicans announced that they would not support him in the general election. His freestyle is therefore uncertain.
In order to actually become chairman of the House of Representatives, he would need the votes of an absolute majority, i.e. 217 MPs, in a vote in the plenary session. If, as expected, he is unanimously rejected by the 213 Democrats, at most four of the 222 Republicans in the Senate are likely to vote once morest him. In a test vote among the Republicans, however, only 152 MPs declared that they would support him in a vote in the plenary session, 55 voted once morest the staunch conservative, and one person abstained.
The opposing candidate in the Republican internal vote was the largely unknown Austin Scott from Georgia, who surprisingly declared his candidacy. He came out of the gate with 81 votes in the vote.
The previous chairman of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, became the first speaker of the US Congress in US history to be voted out last week. Initially, the party had chosen the right-wing conservative Steve Scalise as a possible successor for the third most important office in the state following president and vice president, but because he also did not get the necessary majority, he withdrew his candidacy on Thursday evening.
It is unclear when a vote in the House of Representatives on the presidency will take place and whether Republicans will find a candidate with a majority by then. As long as the chamber remains leaderless, observers say a vote on aid packages for the military conflicts in Ukraine and Israel is unlikely.
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