Nine days after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was booted from his position, voting to land on his successor is at a stalemate, with a group of GOP holdouts planting their heels. On Thursday evening, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) took action in the face of other's inaction, making the decision to bow out of the race after — just yesterday — winning the nomination by a 113-99 margin over Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. “I just shared with my colleagues that I’m withdrawing my name as a candidate...

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) has withdrawn from the race to become the chamber’s next speaker, he said Thursday night. “I just shared with my colleagues that I’m withdrawing my name as a candidate for the speaker designate,” Scalise told reporters. The decision will throw the party into more chaos as it works to find a Republican who can appeal to at least 217 House lawmakers following the shock removal of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) earlier this month. Scalise has spent most of Thursday trying to woo more...

No links yet, but it was reported on MSNBC just now that Congressman Steve Scalise is pulling his name from the upcoming Speaker’s vote. In other words, Scalise has thrown in the towel. This was from a recently called meeting for the House GOP conference.

I bet the insults and accusations flew fast and furious at that meeting.

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) grimly assessed House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s (R-LA) prospects of becoming Speaker of the House. McCarthy said it was a “big hill” to become House Speaker for Scalise, who secured the Republican nomination for Speaker. Although the Louisiana Republican received more votes than House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), he did not have enough votes to become Speaker. “He told a lot of people he was going to be at 150. He wasn’t there,” McCarthy said. He continued by saying that “time is of...

Lying Long Island Rep. George Santos became the latest House Republican to announce he will not vote for Majority Leader Steve Scalise to be the next speaker. “It’s just past 9:40pm and I have yet to hear from the Speaker-Designate,” the scandal-scarred lawmaker wrote in a post to X, formely Twitter. “So I’ve made my decision and after 10 months and having had 0 contact or outreach from him, I’ve come to the conclusion that my VOTE doesn’t matter to him. “I’m now declaring I’m an ANYONE but Scalise and...