| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Hakeem Jeffries (NY 8) | 212 | 49.1% |
| Republican | Jim Jordan (OH 4) | 200 | 46.3% |
| Republican | Steve Scalise (LA 1) | 7 | 1.6% |
| Republican | Kevin McCarthy (CA 20) | 6 | 1.4% |
| Republican | Lee Zeldin | 3 | 0.7% |
| Republican | Tom Cole (OK 4) | 1 | 0.2% |
| Republican | Tom Emmer (MN 6) | 1 | 0.2% |
| Republican | Mike Garcia (CA 27) | 1 | 0.2% |
| Republican | Thomas Massie (KY 4) | 1 | 0.2% |
Note: official party nominees in bold.
Democrats do not look better by letting the Republicans flail. If this is going to be a repeat of the last speakership election, Democrats should intervene.
There is no constitutional requirement that the speaker of the house be a member of Congress. Democrats should nominate a strong apolitical candidate (perhaps a Medal of Honor recipient), and dare the Republicans to give them anything less than their whole-hearted support.
Hell, they should publish a list of the next 10 such candidates they will be nominating, inviting the public and media to compare Jim Jordan to a whole list of laudable alternatives.
Waiting for the Republicans to negotiate toward a position that will appease Matt Gaetz and his chucklefucks serves neither the nation’s interests nor Democratic interests.
Fuck off with blaming the Dems because the Republicans can’t get their shit together to nominate a compromise candidate instead of going further right with each nominee.
“further right with each nominee” IS the compromise. The only thing worse to a Republican than compromising with Gaetz is compromise with the Democrats.
We don’t want compromise. We want to force the issue. We don’t do that by sitting back and watching them flail around until they give Gaetz something he can call a victory. We do that by eliminating Gaetz from the equation. Relegate him to the back bench.
The point for Republicans is to flail around until the budget extension runs out. We’re getting another 3 weeks of this.
At the end of that 3 weeks, we have a GOP speaker a little closer to Matt Gaetz, with the full support of the Republican party. And then he pulls this shit again, and the Republican party shifts a little further to the right. And again, and again, until that slimy weasel is in the white house.
Or, we divide the GOP right now, either giving them a respectable figurehead with just 6 GOP votes, or we spend the term asking their base why they preferred their loser speaker over honest-to-god heroes.
Best case, the new speaker is approved almost unanimously, and Gaetz looks like the fuckwit we all know him to be. worst case, the GOP looks even more incompetent than they actually are.
Yes they do, this is hilarious.
The R frontrunners are someone that covered up high school rape and “David Duke without the baggage.”
University, wasn’t it?
My bad, you’re right.
Teenage rape.
Republicans could just vote for Jefferies and be done with it. He has the most votes and they wouldn’t need to appease the extreme right or they could work with democrats on finding a good compromise speaker. However, Republicans can’t even compromise amongst themselves, so it is unlikely that they will compromise with Democrats. This is 100% Republicans fault