New York’s powerful Republican House delegation is trying to use its political clout this weekend to end a long-running inter-party war and select a GOP-appointed speaker the entire GOP can rally behind, The Post has learned.
“The New York GOP delegation is now pulling its weight as a supermajority building delegation and is interviewing every candidate for speaker this weekend, led by the dean of the delegation,” House Republican conference boss Elise Stefanik, a senior said. state GOP officials.
A New York GOP campaign strategist said he expects Stefanik and the state delegation to play a big role in deciding the next speaker, adding he believes Stefanik will be able to unify the party to pick a candidate who can garner enough support to win.
“The New York Republican delegation, they are the majority makers and without them we don’t have it [House] the majority,” said the strategist.
House Republicans returned to Congress Monday as their internal battle over their new Speaker dragged into a third week.AP
“I think they’re going to have a really big one [and] important voting block.”
New York holds 11 of the 222 seats in the Republican House caucus — primarily in swing districts that the party must hold onto to maintain its slim majority.
Prospective candidates have until noon Sunday to formally inform Stefanik, who oversees the Speaker selection process, of their candidacy.
Rep. Jim Jordan was unable to muster support from at least 217 Republicans, dooming his Speaker bid.JIM LO SCALZO/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Alex deGrasse, Stefanik’s senior adviser, said declared candidates will participate in a candidate forum on Monday at 6:30 p.m. and the election to select a speaker candidate will take place Tuesday at 9:00 a.m.
That’s when the GOP’s inter-party war could spark new chaos, as up to a dozen candidates — from budget peddlers and Trump surrogates to cross-aisle centrists — vie to become the third speaker appointed in as many weeks.
Tensions in the majority caucus are at their highest level since Oct. 3, when Republican opposition joined Democrats to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy — then failed to unite behind two potential successors, Rep. Steve Scalise and Rep. Jim Jordan, leaving the House in handcuffs, unable to conduct any new business.
Rep. Minnesota’s Tom Emmer, the current House majority leader, hopes to jump to the top of the party.AP
At the candidate forum, a number of speaker candidates will compete in another attempt to unify a leader on which at least 217 of the 222 caucus members — the number needed to elect a new speaker in a full House vote — can agree, however reluctantly.
“There’s a lot of baggage,” said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.). “A lot of anger.”
The candidates include Rep. Minnesota’s Tom Emmer, who as House majority sprinter is already at the top of his hierarchy.
Rep. Oklahoma’s Kevin Hern heads the Republican Study Committee, a large conservative caucus.REUTERS
McCarthy quickly support Emmer, calling him “the right man for the job.” Florida Representative Matt Goetz, who spearheaded McCarthy’s downfall, reportedly named Emmer as a potential compromise candidate earlier this month.
But establishment Republicans like Emmer may have a hard time healing fractured factions within the party.
As a member of the House Financial Services Committee, he received donations from accused crypto thief Sam Bankman-Fried and his associates at FTX — and he is haunted by his past support of the Democrat-led effort to repeal the Electoral College
Rep. Byron Donalds, a two-term congressman from Florida, is a prominent supporter of former president Donald Trump.Getty Images
Rep. Oklahoma’s Kevin Hern has a natural base of support as chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the House’s largest conservative caucus, minus the grudges that have arisen against high-profile figures like Emmer.
“There are a lot of historical connections that some will never be able to resolve,” Hern told reporters Friday.
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“I don’t have those negatives.”
Hern has been a vocal critic of continued spending in Ukraine, and has drawn attention to his proposal to raise the retirement age as a way to save Social Security.
At 44, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds is the youngest lawmaker in the speaker’s race, and so far his only black challenger.
A staunch supporter of former president Trump, Donalds was McCarthy’s primary conservative challenger during January’s drawn-out 15-vote speaker election — but later became a McCarthy ally, helping to broker a continuing resolution that averted a government shutdown last month.
Rep. Little-known Austin Scott (R-Ga.), who lost the conference vote to Jordan last week, renew its offer for the position of speaker on Friday, while Rep. 76-year-old Jack Bergman (R-Mich) is entering the race for the first time and House Budget Committee chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) said he was “seriously considering” it.
Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson also threw his hat into the ring on Saturday, submitting his paperwork with the Republican Conference leadership, as did Rep. Texas Pete Sessions, who is serving his 12th term in Congress.
“I know what it takes to move the Republican Party forward,” Sessions said posted on X.
Choosing a new speaker by the end of Tuesday is “the goal,” said speaker pro tem Patrick McHenry (RN.C.).
That means a speaker vacancy for three full weeks, the longest power vacancy in the House since 1856, when it took two months — and 133 votes — to elect a new leader.
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