House Republican Leadership News Conference November 2, 2023

Table Of Content

• Why Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2003 tabloid deal came up at Trump’s hush-money trial
• GOP lawmaker says 26 votes against Emmer during roll call vote
• Chuck Schumer Must Fulfill His Constitutional Duty And Hold An Impeachment Trial For DHS Secretary Mayorkas
• California Republicans in swing districts backed Trump ally Jordan for speaker
• Column: Kevin McCarthy wants vengeance. Now he’s free to pursue it
• Biden tells Howard Stern he’s ‘happy to debate’ Trump

In addition to nominating McCarthy for speaker, Republican selected Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana as majority leader in a voice vote, and Rep. Elyse Stefanik of New York was reelected conference chair. Rep. Tom Emmer, the chairman of the House GOP's campaign arm known as the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), won a three-way race for whip, the third highest-ranking position. Emmer's victory was a surprise, since the predicted "red wave" in the midterm elections never materialized under his leadership of the NRCC. House Republican leaders spoke to reporters following their conference meeting at the Capitol.

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“Californians are eager to reject the extremism that [Valadao]’s been enabling,” Dan Gottlieb, a spokesman for Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in a news release. But, Madrid said, for Republicans in safe districts, donors are unlikely to want to invest since they are unlikely to see anything change. Just more evidence that the Biden and Mayorkas impeachment crusades have been purely political exercises. With Mayorkas, at least they gave dear leader Trump and the party’s MAGA base something. The latest and hopefully final blow to the impeachment follies was delivered Wednesday. Two months after House Republicans made Mayorkas the first Cabinet member to be impeached in nearly 150 years, they finally sent the patently political charges to the Democratic-controlled Senate, which took just three hours to dismiss them.

GOP lawmaker says 26 votes against Emmer during roll call vote

"We're going to do what's necessary to make sure that the national security bill gets over the finish line," House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Thursday morning. Republican Reps. Chip Roy, Thomas Massie and Ralph Norman voted against the rule in committee. "If Mike Johnson is removed simply because he put aid to our allies on the floor, No. 1, it'll cause another prolonged amount of chaos. And No. 2, it will make it that much harder for the next speaker to do the right thing at the right time."

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Emmer, the House majority whip, said in a letter to his colleagues shared on Saturday that he was seeking the speakership with the goal of delivering “historic change.” Kevin McCarthy backed the Minnesota Republican for speaker, which delivered an early boost for his candidacy. Meuser told CNN "there are some holdouts" to Emmer’s speaker bid, and that there are "around 10" members opposed to him in the closed-door roll call vote currently underway. There are about 10 "no" votes in the House GOP conference against Rep. Tom Emmer, the speaker designee, according to Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania. “Whoever the conference picks I'm going to support,” McCarthy said on NBC News Now. "Let the conference decide that. ... I'm not going to be a player in that." Moderate Rep. Don Bacon said that he thinks some members will nominate McCarthy for speaker tonight and argued that no one else in the conference has as much support as the former speaker, who was ousted last week.

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House Speaker Ben Toma rose to challenge the vote on the House floor on Wednesday. "This total ban on abortion that the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled on is out of line with where the people of this state are," Lake said in a video statement on social media earlier this month. House Democrats played a key role in helping GOP leaders advance legislation to provide nearly $95 billion in stalled funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, teeing up a vote on final passage on Saturday. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report changed its rating of Valadao’s race from “lean Republican” to “toss-up” on Tuesday.

Gosar's announcement came shortly after a House vote to advance foreign aid bills to Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel, which required Democrats' support to offset GOP defections. The trio of Republicans have expressed dismay that Johnson forged ahead with Ukraine aid without securing support for a bill aimed to strengthen security along the U.S.-Southern border. Thirty-eight percent of Republicans surveyed in an October Economist/YouGov poll said they wanted House members to back the candidate supported by the majority of the caucus, even if they disagree with the nominee, while 33% of Republicans said they should not. Madrid said it’s very unlikely that candidates in California’s most competitive districts will see their bank accounts dry up.

Joe Biden’s failed Far Left open border policies are attracting individuals with heinous convictions, including rapes of incapacitated children to the United St... "Trust is something people are looking for," Norman said, adding that "Tom's honest." Emmer's total is still short of the 217 total needed to win the speakership on the House floor. Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota has emerged as the House Republicans' latest speaker nominee after GOP members conducted a multi-round secret ballot voting session Tuesday morning, according to Rep. Elise Stefanik.

On a less high-minded note, how delicious was it to see Ms. Greene on the steps of the Capitol on Saturday, raving about Mr. Johnson’s various “betrayals” and proclaiming him “a lame duck,” even as she hemmed and hawed about when she would move to oust him? All in good time, she said, insisting she felt moved to let her colleagues first “go home and hear from their constituents” over this week’s House recess. “I said from the beginning I’m going to be responsible with this,” she said, in what may be her most laughable line in weeks — a high bar for the House member known for her keen insights on Jewish space lasers. "Even though it's not the perfect legislation, it's not the legislation that we would write if Republicans were in charge of both the House, the Senate, and the White House, this is the best possible product that we can get under these circumstances," Johnson said after the vote. Several members of the Republican conference had called for a Thursday rule to include changing the threshold to bring a motion to remove the speaker — which currently is just one member.

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Donors in and outside the state will continue giving to protect the five Republicans who hold districts President Biden won in 2020 — Young Kim of Anaheim Hills, David Valadao of Hanford, Mike Garcia of Santa Clarita, Michelle Steel of Seal Beach and John Duarte of Modesto. Even before his first election to Congress in 2006, McCarthy demonstrated his value by raising money and sending funds to fellow candidates and the National Republican Congressional Committee. As he rose the ranks in party leadership, donors were more eager to hand over their cash. This was a godsend to the state party, which had struggled to raise enough money to field competitive candidates in safer Democratic districts. Since House Republicans unanimously elected Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker last week, the GOP has sought to portray itself as an emboldened party willing to battle President Biden and the Democratic-controlled Senate.

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That House GOP roll call vote is happening now, according to Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida would not say if she will vote for GOP Whip Tom Emmer on the floor when asked by CNN’s Manu Raju. This is enough to prevent him from becoming speaker on the full House floor. GOP Rep. Mike Johnson, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee with Jordan but is from Scalise's home state of Louisiana, would not commit to who he was supporting.

Jordan and many of his allies are backing the proposal, which is expected to be discussed at tonight’s closed-door conference meeting. A small minority of the conference "took the wheels off our car and we need to be acting right now on Israel,” Bacon told CNN. “They don't support the institution. They don't support our party. All these folks care about is media clicks." Rep. Patrick McHenry, who became speaker pro tempore, opened up the conference meeting urging unity and kindness, according to members exiting the meeting.

Hamilton said she had several phone conversations with Republicans the night before the vote and while she would not divulge the details of those conversations, she said it made her cautiously optimistic. Democrats also took the extremely rare step of voting to advance the Republican foreign aid bills out of the Rules Committee late Thursday night. But Johnson went on social media Thursday to say the House will "continue to govern under the existing rules."

Some Democrats have indicated they would help save Johnson if the motion to vacate comes to the floor. "We need a Speaker who puts America first rather than bending to the reckless demands of the warmongers, neo-cons and the military industrial complex making billions from a costly and endless war half a world away," Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar said in a statement late Friday morning. Democratic groups may have an easier time tying the lawmakers to former President Trump, Fleischman argued. But Jon Fleischman, former executive director of California’s Republican Party, doesn’t think connecting vulnerable California Republicans to Johnson will go far with voters.