Why We Still Don’t Have a Speaker of the House
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🗓️ 24 October 2023
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Weeks after Kevin McCarthy was ousted, Republicans are still scrambling to elect a new Speaker of the House. After failed runs by Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan, the candidate pool keeps growing. Who is in the running now, and will anyone be able to snag the 217 votes needed?
Guest: Joseph Zeballos-Roig, Congress reporter at Semafor.
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| 0:36.2 | Discounts not available in all states and situations. When I got Semaphores Joseph Zabios Roych on the line, I had one question for him. |
| 0:52.1 | At this point, who is not running for Speaker of the House? |
| 0:55.6 | It's been three weeks since California Congressman Kevin McCarthy was unceremoniously kicked out of his job by members of his own party. |
| 1:09.0 | After Republicans could not get behind a nominee last week. There are new candidates in the running. |
| 1:15.8 | Anybody who's harbored any kind of ambition in the House Republican conference, |
| 1:19.9 | which is basically all of them, is just throwing their hat into the ring right now |
| 1:23.8 | and there's really no sign of it ending anytime soon. |
| 1:27.6 | It feels like we've moved on from Republican main characters |
| 1:30.7 | at this point. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, we're getting into the side characters and the people who the showwriters kind of like maybe wrote off a couple years ago, but then they're just making a new entrance and a new season. |
| 1:41.0 | And we'll see if any of these figures get 2017 votes. |
| 1:46.3 | 217 is the magic number of votes a candidate would need to declare victory here. |
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