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3 House Republican, dropped his bid only hours after securing the nomination. A social conservative, Mr. Johnson is a lawyer and the former chairman of the Republican Study Committee. This conference that you see, this House Republican majority, is united. Some on the right opposed to Mr. Emmer cited his vote in favor of codifying federal protections for same-sex couples. Mr. Emmer had attempted to mollify Mr. Trump by calling him over the weekend and praising him, according to the former president.

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☆ Opinion | The Speakership Is Yours, Mike Johnson. Good Luck With That.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Gail Collins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

This week, he compared himself to a South African Nobel Peace Prize winner who served time in prison for his battles against apartheid. All that flailing around over selecting a House speaker was due, in part, to the Republicans’ failure to corral their Flimsy Five around any of the original contenders. “I have many wonderful friends wanting to be Speaker of the House, and some are truly great Warriors,” Trump declaimed. Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who finally won the speaker’s job, is exactly the kind of guy you’d expect to come up on top. Right-wing anti-abortion activist who gets along with his colleagues and who, crucially, has items in his résumé that won Trump’s heart.

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☆ Emmer Drops Speaker Bid After Right-Wing Backlash
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Luke Broadwater | More About Luke Broadwater | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“RINO Tom Emmer, who I do not know well, is not one of them. He never respected the Power of a Trump Endorsement, or the breadth and scope of MAGA—MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”A majority of those opposed to Mr. Emmer were members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus and loyal to Mr. Trump. Any candidate for speaker can lose only a handful of votes and still win the speakership because Republicans hold such a small majority in the House. Only hours later, Mr. Emmer decided to drop his bid, according to a person familiar with his thinking who divulged it on the condition of anonymity before it was officially announced. The Republican disarray underscored a new ethos that has gripped the House G.O.P.

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☆ Trump just injected even more chaos into the GOP's weeks-long struggle to find a new speaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump isn't a fan of Tom Emmer, the GOP's latest nominee for speaker of the House. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe weeks-long quest to find a new Republican speaker of the House took yet another chaotic turn on Tuesday after former President Donald Trump bashed his party's newly-elected nominee, Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota. "I have many wonderful friends wanting to be Speaker of the House, and some are truly great Warriors," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "RINO Tom Emmer, who I do not know well, is not one of them." "Voting for a Globalist RINO like Tom Emmer would be a tragic mistake!"

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With Trump sitting feet away, Trump’s one-time lawyer and fixer described how he manipulated Trump’s financial statements – “reverse-engineering” them to hit an arbitrary net worth. We’re not worried at all about his testimony,” Trump said during a lunch break. The tense questioning is going to continue into Wednesday, as Habba hadn’t even started on the substance of Cohen’s testimony in the civil fraud trial. In the July 2014 letter submitting a bid to buy the Bills, Trump claimed his net worth was $8 billion. Before Engoron’s ruling, the state attorneys and Trump’s lawyers clashed over Michael Cohen’s testimony about the letter.

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