Fox News’s Bret Baier is scheduled to host a televised forum for the three candidates for Speaker of the House — an unusual move that follows Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) unprecedented ouster as Speaker.
House Majority Leader Scalise (R-La.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) would participate in the event on Monday at 6 p.m. EST.
The three men will all appear on the same stage together, according to two sources familiar with the plans, a format that Fox News is billing as a “joint interview” rather than a “debate.”
The network said Baier will “press the congressmen on who should be the next Speaker of the House and discuss the issues facing Congress and the Republican party going forward.”
Wow, they are really dead set on making this whole process a hyper-embarrassing circus of dysfunction, huh?
I feel like that is kind of the whole point behind this thing. They get to completely shut down the government while they play up all the internal strife as if it’s not manufactured to keep the government from performing it’s job.
I don’t think it’s manufactured. They want Biden to eat the blame for the shutdown and economic damage they’re about to cause. It gets harder and harder to do that when they’re clearly the problem.
It’s possible they’re betting that optics won’t matter and that the president always eats the blame for the economy. But this is testing that theory as hard as humanly possible. Seems counterproductive to make more of a show of it.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it’s gone.
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/06/televised-speaker-forum-house-republicans-fox-news
If they’re going to do this, they should include Hakeem Jeffries, as well. Yes, Jeffries is a Democrat, and the current Minority Leader of the House, but he has the votes of all Democrats, which means he likely has more support now than any of the Republican candidates.
Just like the Republican candidates have to convince a handful of Ultra MAGA representatives, Jeffries only has to convince a handful of more moderate Republicans.
Although, especially with Jim Jordan in the mix, it’s possible that the three candidates might ruin the GOP on their own.
Lol so uh, this is intended to be an internal process that the House just takes care of. I fail to see what the point of a “debate” would be in this context.
You can’t fundraise and commit stochastic terrorism off an internal process!
Like do you even republican, man?
Fair points.
Rebuttal: they’re eating themselves alive and everyone else is just grabbing the popcorn lololololol
but why?
And the Republican caucus doesn’t like this. They’re afraid it might "Turn it into a circus.” As opposed to what it is now?
Trump should show up uninvited and demand to participate
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The three men will all appear on the same stage together, according to two sources familiar with the plans, a format that Fox News is billing as a “joint interview” rather than a “debate.”
The network said Baier will “press the congressmen on who should be the next Speaker of the House and discuss the issues facing Congress and the Republican party going forward.”
Scalise and Jordan — the latter of whom former President Trump endorsed for Speaker overnight Friday — have both officially announced their candidacies.
The televised forum reflects the highly unusual nature of the race to replace McCarthy — and the intense public interest it is garnering.
House Republicans are scheduled to have a closed-door candidate forum Tuesday, and then vote internally on a nominee Wednesday.
That nominee will go up against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on the House floor, where they will need to secure a majority of members present and voting for a candidate in order to secure the gavel — which could be a tough task in the slim GOP majority.
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