IF YOU AIN’T FIRST - Iowa is falling in line on the presidential nominating calendar and will now be a Super Tuesday state for Democrats, officially ending its first-in-the-nation status and capping off more than a year of internal party deliberations over the order of nominating. KEVIN HERN (R-Okla.), who is also mulling a run, also said preemptively he would not participate. Scalise is “no longer participating” in the event, Axios’ Andrew Solender reports, citing a spokesperson. “We are proving it is.”Īnd no more than a few hours after the idea was first reported, it seems to be headed to the scrap heap. “People already thought this seemed like a circus,” said one centrist Republican lawmaker, who was granted anonymity to discuss internal conference dynamics. The latest point of contention was a scheduled joint interview/debate that Fox News was planning to host between Jordan and Scalise, which spiked tensions among the key bloc of lawmakers. He predicted that the race for the position could be resolved by Wednesday next week.ĭUMPING ON THE DEBATE: Moderate House Republicans are “growing increasingly alarmed about the state of their party’s speaker race, with some warning it’s becoming ‘a circus’ that will harm their push to hang onto the majority,” Meredith Lee Hill reports. “It’s a lot of one on one conversations over the last few days I’ve been having with my colleagues and a lot of introspection about how we get things back on track,” the Louisiana Republican said. Scalise also indicated he had spoken with Trump, but that he still holds a “strong base” of support. “If the doctors didn't sign off, I wouldn’t be doing this,” Scalise told Fox News’ “Fox and Friends”, adding that he has “been through tougher fights.” Scalise said this morning his cancer treatment is going “phenomenally well” and that he is healthy enough to take on the job. ICYMI: “How Trump was talked into - and out of - a run for speaker,” by Ryan and Rachael … We’ve got from the Freedom Caucus to people in the middle, to committee chairs, to JEFF VAN DREW - who was a Democrat four years ago - we’ve got all kinds of across the board support, and we’re just going to keep working.” … But we’re focused also on, the key thing is our colleagues. On DONALD TRUMP’s endorsement of his bid: “I appreciate the president’s endorsement. I never wanted to do this job, but someone has to.” MAKING THEIR CASE: Meanwhile, Jordan told CNN’s Manu Raju this morning that what sets him apart from Scalise is his ability to unite Republicans in the conference and “tell the country what we’re doing and why it’s important to them.” He continued, throwing in a dash of something like humility: “I like the job I have now. “The potential speaker would still need to get 218 votes in a public floor vote, but the group's hope is that raising that required support in the conference meeting means any fighting would happen behind closed doors, avoiding the public spectacle and humiliation of a dragged-out floor vote.” The group wants to instead raise that threshold to 218 of the GOP's 221 votes. “Under current rules, the House GOP meets in private to decide on a candidate for speaker by a two-thirds vote. “Dozens of House Republicans are quietly pushing a temporary change that would raise the requirements to earn the party's recommendation for speaker,” Olivia Beavers reports.

JIM JORDAN (R-Ohio) and House Majority Leader STEVE SCALISE push forward in their bids to take over as speaker, the rest of the conference is mulling a rule change that could save whoever ends up chasing the gavel from the public ridicule that McCarthy faced earlier this year. WHAT HAPPENS IN HC-5 STAYS IN HC-5 - As Rep.

A small band of extremists should not be capable of obstructing that cooperation. “In short, the rules of the House should reflect the inescapable reality that Republicans are reliant on Democratic support to do the basic work of governing. TOP-ED - House Minority Leader HAKEEM JEFFRIES writes in WaPo calling for a “bipartisan governing coalition” in light of former Speaker KEVIN McCARTHY’s deposal and the ongoing Republican infighting over who might take his place. As Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise jockey for position in the race to take over as speaker, House Republicans are mulling a major rule change.

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