Not less than 10 Republicans have introduced that they may run for speaker or that they’re contemplating doing so since Friday, when the get together solid apart Consultant Jim Jordan of Ohio as its newest nominee for the management submit.
A flood of lawmakers started campaigning simply hours after Republicans voted in a closed-door assembly to restart the nomination course of after Mr. Jordan, his assist ebbing, failed on a 3rd flooring vote to win the speakership. The vote primarily ensured that the workplace of the speaker would stay empty for a 3rd week.
The lawmakers vying for the job embrace veterans of the Home, committee chairmen, a high member of Republican management and a sophomore. Nearly none have the type of commanding nationwide profile usually required of the speaker, who just isn’t solely second in line to the presidency however a key fund-raiser for his or her get together’s efforts to guard and increase its majority.
They should navigate the identical treacherous dynamics of a bitterly divided convention that the three males earlier than them couldn’t, leaving some Republicans brazenly questioning whether or not anybody can win a majority of votes on the Home flooring.
Listed below are the Republicans who’re working — or who’re contemplating working — for speaker.
Tom Emmer of Minnesota
Mr. Emmer, 62, is the highest-ranking Republican within the race. Endorsed by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Mr. Emmer is the No. 3 Republican within the Home, whose job is to “whip,” or rely votes, to cross the speaker’s agenda.
He’s thought of among the many front-runners, although he might encounter the identical points that dogged Consultant Steve Scalise of Louisiana, Republicans’ first failed nominee to interchange Mr. McCarthy. Far-right Republican activists have accused Mr. Emmer of being insufficiently supportive of former President Donald J. Trump. And a few moderates within the convention had been privately sad that he didn’t again an effort to briefly empower the appearing speaker, Consultant Patrick T. McHenry of North Carolina.
A former school ice hockey participant and coach, Mr. Emmer has allies amongst each the conservative and the institution wings of the get together.
Mr. Emmer served two phrases because the chairman of the Nationwide Republican Congressional Committee, serving to Republican candidates throughout the nation win elections and making inroads throughout the convention within the course of.
Mr. Scott, 53, was a shock candidate for the speaker nomination final week, garnering 81 votes within the convention towards the better-known Mr. Jordan.
A small-business proprietor, Mr. Scott was the freshman class president for the 112th Congress.
He’s additionally an ally of Mr. McCarthy and expressed outrage on the Californian’s ouster by the hands of far-right rebels, denouncing them as “nothing greater than grifters.”
Byron Donalds of Florida
Mr. Donalds, 44, a member of the ultraconservative Home Freedom Caucus, is a favourite of the get together’s proper wing. That is solely his second time period in Congress; he received his Naples-based district in 2020.
A local New Yorker, he obtained as many as 20 votes for speaker on the Home flooring in January throughout the extended battle that resulted in Mr. McCarthy rising as speaker.
He has already picked up endorsements from his fellow Floridians.
Kevin Hern of Oklahoma
Mr. Hern, 61, is the chairman of the Republican Examine Committee, a gaggle dedicated to advancing conservative ideology {that a} majority of the Republican convention belongs to. The submit usually serves as a springboard to management positions. Mr. Jordan and Mr. Scalise, in addition to former Vice President Mike Pence, all have led the committee.
Mr. Hern has the conservative credentials that might assuage the hard-right lawmakers who bedeviled Mr. McCarthy, however he’s seen as a extra reasonable possibility than Mr. Jordan.
Nicknamed the “McCongressman” for his earlier ownerships of 18 McDonald’s franchises, Mr. Hern, a former aerospace engineer, was elected to the Home in 2018.
Jodey C. Arrington of Texas
Mr. Arrington, 51, rose to prominence this 12 months because the chairman of the Funds Committee, answerable for delivering a framework laying out the spending cuts Republicans stated they might demand in trade for suspending the debt restrict.
Mr. Arrington had a pained relationship with Mr. McCarthy as tensions flared across the debt ceiling negotiations. Mr. McCarthy didn’t belief Mr. Arrington after he floated the concept of supporting Consultant Steve Scalise of Louisiana to a colleague halfway via Mr. McCarthy’s drawn-out battle for the Home speakership in January. Mr. McCarthy later largely minimize him out of the negotiations.
A former official within the George W. Bush administration, Mr. Arrington is a favourite of Consultant Kay Granger of Texas, the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee. She might be a strong ally: Most of the holdouts who sunk Mr. Jordan’s candidacy had been veteran members of her panel.
Few folks exterior of his district could also be aware of Mr. Bergman. A retired Marine Corps lieutenant normal, Mr. Bergman, 76, represents Michigan’s Higher Peninsula and the northern half of the Decrease Peninsula.
A extremely adorned naval aviator, Mr. Bergman has earned cachet with most of the mainstream conservatives — a number of of whom are navy veterans themselves — who opposed Mr. Jordan’s candidacy and need an skilled chief on the helm. Mr. Bergman has offered himself as a short lived possibility who would work to “regular the ship” and return normalcy to the Home.
“What we’d like proper now’s a speaker who has expertise main and might put ego apart to work collectively for the American folks,” Mr. Bergman stated in a press release. “We’d like a pacesetter who shuns everlasting energy and acknowledges the present disaster of management.”
Mike Johnson of Louisiana
Mr. Johnson, 51, is a lawyer who’s the previous chairman of the conservative Republican Examine Committee.
An evangelical Christian who’s a member of the Judiciary Committee, Mr. Johnson was a key architect of Republicans’ objections to certifying the victory of Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Jan. 6, 2021. Many Republicans in Congress relied on his arguments.
He’s an ally and supporter of Mr. Jordan who solely thought of shifting ahead together with his personal bid for speaker after Mr. Jordan fell brief.
Pete Periods of Texas
Mr. Periods, 68, is the longest-serving member of Congress to this point who’s contemplating working for speaker, first serving from 1997 to 2019. After he was defeated in 2018 by a Democrat, Mr. Periods ran for a seat in a neighboring district and prevailed, returning to Congress in 2021. He has beforehand served because the chairman of the Home Republican marketing campaign committee and as chairman of the highly effective Guidelines committee.
Mr. Periods participated in a 2019 marketing campaign by Trump allies focusing on Marie L. Yovanovitch, the ambassador to Ukraine, writing to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that she must be fired for repeatedly expressing “disdain” for the Trump administration. (Mr. Trump recalled her in April of that 12 months.)
Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania
Mr. Meuser, 59, was elected to Congress in 2018, after serving as his state’s secretary of income. He instructed the Nationwide Evaluation that he was contemplating working for speaker as a result of “I’m not gonna let this kindergarten proceed.”
