A week after suffering devastating midterm losses, House Republicans will decide how much they will clean up their own house.
While the President Mike Johnson If the party exits the stage in January, Tuesday’s GOP leadership elections will still pit members of the existing leadership structure against insurgents hoping to capitalize on the desire for a clean slate.
“Someone needs to be fired,” the representative said. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.), who said he supported the underdogs in the three high-profile races “because we got our asses handed to us.”
At the top of this list is the rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, a 20-year veteran of the House of Representatives and a well-known face on the hard right wing of the Republican Party who nonetheless never served in the ranks of senior leadership. He faces the minority leader against Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the sitting majority leader who has held the party’s second or third place since 2014.
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