Republicans to vote on eight speaker hopefuls as Home paralysis continues – stay

Republicans have convened a behind-closed-doors meeting to select their latest nominee for speaker of the House. Just as the meeting kicked off, Alabama’s Gary Palmer announced he was dropping out of the contest, bringing the field to seven candidates:

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I will work with the next speaker on the ideas I have laid out so Congress can come together and do the job the American people sent us here to do.

With this in mind, I am withdrawing my name from consideration for Speaker. pic.twitter.com/cz4Gwzg7Fa

— Gary Palmer (@USRepGaryPalmer) October 24, 2023

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It’s now been three weeks to the day since rightwing Republicans and Democrats forced out Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House, and the chamber’s GOP majority still hasn’t been able to find a replacement. The party is riven with factionalism and grievance, and two of their nominees for the post, Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan, have dropped out in the face of opposition they realized was unyielding.

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This morning at 9am eastern time, the House Republican Conference is expected to begin voting on who should be their latest nominee for speaker. There are now eight candidates running after Pennsylvania lawmaker Dan Meuser quit the race yesterday, but there’s no telling if any of them can get the 217 votes necessary to win a floor vote. Tom Emmer, the third-highest-ranking Republican in the House, appears to be a frontrunner, but he’s unpopular with Donald Trump’s acolytes, and that may be enough to sink him. Other candidates to watch are Florida’s Byron Donalds, who is Trump-aligned, relatively inexperienced, and would be the first Black speaker, and Oklahoma’s Kevin Hern, who leads the large and influential Republican Study Committee. The vote is being held behind closed doors, but the House GOP is a leaky bunch, and we’ll let you know what we hear.

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Here’s what else is happening today:

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• Joe Biden will this evening at 6pm ET welcome Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese to the White House.

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• Republican presidential aspirants are campaigning with vigor, with Tim Scott shaking hands at a variety of places in Iowa, Vivek Ramaswamy addressing the conservative Hudson Institute in Washington DC and Ron DeSantis holding a town hall with New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu.

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• Israel says it is “ready and determined” to continue its war against Hamas, as the death toll in the enclave hit 5,700. Follow our live blog for the latest on the conflict.

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