An important piece of reporting to reference here is that seven of the nine declared candidates (Jack Bergman, Byron Donalds, Kevin Hern, Mike Johnson, Dan Meuser, Gary Palmer, and Pete Sessions) objected to the certification of the 2020 Presidential election. The two candidates who did not are Tom Emmer, the majority whip, and Austin Scott.
Do any of them have more votes than Hakeem Jeffries?
None of them have any votes yet.
Why dont we just start talking about what Democrats the Republicans can vote for. Thats whats important at this point.
Republicans won’t go for it. But let’s say they did. Gaetz or someone else would immediately call for a new speaker with that law they passed and start the whole process over again.
That’s not the point, in the same manner that them getting a speaker elected isn’t the point.
Whoever controls the conversation is winning is the point. There is an open opportunity to hikack the narrative by Democrats. Simple “move beyond” the Republicans in a serious and straight laced manner. Just upgrade the conversation into a serious conversation about the merits of several potential democratic candidates. What it does is highlight the disingenuousness of the Republicans, while showing off the seriousness of the Democrats.
Effective politicians do this all the time (See Obama, See Trump for examples) when they answer the questions they would prefer to be answered as opposed to the question they were asked. It’s politics 101.
The point is Republicans are running a circus right now so the 45 day budget extension runs out. That’s the whole reason McCarthy was ousted. Putin has ordered them to stop the US supply to Ukraine.
