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Tom Emmer drops out of Speaker’s race (thehill.com)

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Just 4 hours after winning the nomination, a roll-call vote for support left him 24 votes shy of the speakership, and Trump posted on social media in opposition of Emmer's bid. The results of the roll-call vote which ultimately caused Emmer to realize he had no path to 217 is below.

Candidate	Votes	Percent
Tom Emmer	193	90.6%
Jim Jordan	15	7.0%
Mike Johnson	4	1.9%
Byron Donalds	1	0.5%
Present	5
No Vote	6

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[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Jesus fucking Christ guys, just change the secret party vote format to ranked choice and then get your shit together so all the Republicans will elect one doofus.