Emmer is ill-suited for a party focused on hard-right purity tests and Trump-ism. And it showed.
Rep. Tom Emmer ostensibly began his bid for speaker with fewer members dug in against him than Rep. Jim Jordan , who failed to win the post last week. While 55 said on a secret ballot they would oppose Jordan, fewer than half, 26, said the same of Emmer in a recorded vote on Tuesday.The bad news is that the math problem very much remains for Emmer and the GOP, with the next speaker likely able to only lose the votes of four GOP colleagues.
“I have many wonderful friends wanting to be Speaker of the House, and some are truly great Warriors,” Trump said on his social media platform, Truth Social. “RINO Tom Emmer, who I do not know well, is not one of them.”Trump’s arguments against Emmer are varied but they basically boil down to the single most important characteristic for Trump: supporting Trump.
And shortly after Emmer won the nomination, we began to see these problems creep in. Emmer’s problem is that there are plenty of issues that could be red lines for hard-right members, even if they don’t all have the same red lines: Rep. Jim Banks , whom Emmer defeated to become the No. 3 House Republican last year, said, “Emmer’s not a conservative.” Added Banks: “I’m a conservative. I came to Washington to fight for conservative values. I can’t go along with putting one of the most moderate members of the entire Republican conference in the speaker’s chair.”It’s worth emphasizing that there are few publicly declared “Never Emmers” at this point. Allen, Banks and Greene sounds like they are.
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