House GOP scrambles to find path forward after voting to push out Jordan as speaker nominee
CNN — House Republicans are once again scrambling with no clear path to elect a new speaker after voting to push Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan out of the race, the…
Jim Jordan scrambles for votes after 20 GOP defections imperil his speaker bid
CNN — Conservative Republican Rep. Jim Jordan called off a second speaker’s vote Tuesday evening while he scrambled behind the scenes to try to win over 20 Republicans who voted…
No. 2 Senate Republican says there’s ‘a lot of resistance’ in GOP over Jack Lew’s nomination to be US ambassador to Israel
CNN — Senate Republican Whip John Thune told CNN there is “a lot of resistance” to the nomination of Jack Lew to be the US ambassador to Israel, a sign…
Jordan faces grim prospects in speaker’s fight after whirlwind week for House GOP
CNN — After a series of setbacks, Republicans ended the week no closer to electing a new speaker as deep internal divisions have left the conference struggling to govern and…
GOP opposition hardens against Steve Scalise, leaving speaker bid in peril
CNN — Majority Leader Steve Scalise is scrambling to salvage his House speaker bid in the face of an entrenched opposition inside his party that’s left the chamber paralyzed and…
Chaos in House GOP intensifies with Scalise’s speakership bid in peril
CNN — The House Republican Party is sliding even deeper into disarray as it feuds over its next speaker, apparently oblivious to the picture of US government dysfunction it is…
House GOP returns to Washington without a speaker while Israel faces war
CNN — Republican lawmakers returning to Washington this week will do so without a House speaker, setting up a high-pressure situation to reach consensus on a candidate to wield the…
Trump seeks to reassert himself as GOP kingmaker in House speaker fight
CNN — There was only one way the chaos in the Republican-led House – likened Thursday by one of its members to a “stupid clown car” – could get more…
The next GOP speaker will face the same traps that doomed McCarthy
CNN — Getting rid of Kevin McCarthy didn’t solve anything. Whoever succeeds the former House speaker will need to defuse the hazardous and self-defeating political forces inside the Republican conference…
Fact Check: The second GOP debate of the 2024 election
CNN — Seven Republican presidential candidates participated in a debate Wednesday night in California, while the front-runner in the party primary, former President Donald Trump, skipped the debate and instead…