Emmer, the House Majority Whip, has the support of the majority of House Republicans but is well short of the 217 he needs to before Speaker.
House Republicans nominated Tom Emmer for speaker, but there's still no guarantee that he can get the 217 votes he needs on the floor to win the job.
House Republicans on Tuesday elected Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the No. 3 in the party, as their speaker nominee after five rounds of ballots ...
House Republicans on Tuesday picked Rep. Tom Emmer as their new speaker nominee, but it quickly became clear that the Minnesota Republican is far short of ...
Emmer, the GOP Whip and senior-most candidate, jumped out front in private balloting as the top vote-getter among the hodge-podge list of mostly lesser-known ...
The previous two speaker nominees, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, failed to secure enough votes.
The Minnesota congressman may struggle to win votes from allies of former President Donald Trump.
Republicans voted behind closed doors to nominate Tom Emmer of Minnesota for speaker of the House three weeks after Kevin McCarthy was ousted.
The lawmaker dropped out of the race after it became clear he did not have the votes to win the gavel.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) dropped out of the Speaker's race Tuesday, just hours after the conference nominated the Minnesota Republican for ...
Tom Emmer, the House G.O.P.'s No. 3 leader, narrowly won his party's nomination but drew an immediate backlash from right-wing colleagues and former ...
Just hours after Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) won the Republican Conference's nomination to be Speaker on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump took to Truth ...
The latest: House Republicans are poised to hold another secret-ballot vote to nominate a new speaker candidate at 8 p.m. ET. They're currently holding a ...
The House Majority Whip may still struggle to garner the votes needed to win on the House floor.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer is seen outside a House Republican Conference speaker election meeting in Longworth Building on Tuesday, October 24, 2023. Tom ...
Emmer, the GOP Whip, reversed course after Donald Trump objected to his nomination and hardliners in the House denied the party leader the votes he would ...
House Republicans voted Tuesday to nominate a third speaker candidate in as many weeks. About two dozen members voted against House Republican Whip Tom ...
More than two dozen GOP lawmakers signaled they wouldn't back Emmer on the floor.
Johnson of Louisiana, a lower-ranked member of the House GOP leadership team, becomes the fourth Republican nominee after Emmer and the others fell short in ...
U.S. House Republicans picked Majority Leader Tom Emmer as their nominee for speaker on Tuesday, making him the third pick in as many weeks, after the last ...
Emmer is the third Republican nominee for the role in as many weeks.