{"id":2077555,"date":"2023-10-24T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emmer-is-one-republican-democrats-are-willing-to-cooperate-with-gop-to-elect-as-new-speaker\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:59:39","slug":"emmer-is-one-republican-democrats-are-willing-to-cooperate-with-gop-to-elect-as-new-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/emmer-is-one-republican-democrats-are-willing-to-cooperate-with-gop-to-elect-as-new-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats are open to collaborating with Republicans to elect Emmer as the new speaker."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Femmer-is-one-republican-democrats-are-willing-to-cooperate-with-gop-to-elect-as-new-speaker%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2077555&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>House Democrats Open to Clearing the Way \u2062for Tom Emmer as Speaker<\/h2>\n<p>House Democrats are willing to step aside and support\u200c House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) as the next\u200b speaker, but with certain conditions. \u2063They want assurance\u2064 that key policy issues, such as \u2063funding the government and aid bills for Ukraine and \u200bIsrael, will\u200d be brought to the House floor.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership\u2063 in the Democratic \u200dcaucus believes that Emmer is the best option among the seven GOP \u200bcandidates. \u2064If Emmer agrees to their demands, Democrats would be \u200dopen to sitting out the vote and giving him the necessary support to\u2063 become speaker.<\/p>\n<h3>How House Republicans Will Choose Their Next Speaker Nominee<\/h3>\n<p>This move would mean fewer votes for \u2064House Minority Leader \u2063Hakeem Jeffries\u2062 (D-NY),\u2062 reducing the majority and\u2064 increasing\u2064 Emmer&#8217;s chances of winning the speakership.<\/p>\n<p>Even Emmer&#8217;s \u2062fellow \u2062Minnesotan, Rep. \u200bDean Phillips (D-MN),\u2064 is willing to sit out the vote if \u2063Emmer meets\u200d the Democrats&#8217; \u200drequirements.\u200d Phillips \u2063expressed \u200chis concerns about the dysfunction in the \u2064House and\u2062 emphasized\u200b the need for government\u200b funding, aid bills, and rules changes to benefit the people.<\/p>\n<p>However, Emmer \u200bhas made it clear that he has no intention of negotiating with the\u200c Democrats and \u200dwants to \u2062secure the \u2062speakership \u2064solely\u200b through \u200cRepublican votes.<\/p>\n<p>The House will convene for\u2064 the fourth \u2064round of\u200b speaker votes, with eight \u2063candidates in the running after Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA)\u200b dropped out of the\u2062 race.<\/p>\n<p>Since the\u200c removal \u200bof McCarthy, House \u200cRepublicans \u200dhave nominated House \u2063Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman \u200bJim Jordan (R-OH) as speaker candidates. However, neither has been able to gather the necessary \u200cvotes to win\u2062 the office, leading them\u2062 to withdraw\u2064 from the\u2064 race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"link\">Click \u200dhere<\/a> to \u2062read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats are open to making way for Tom Emmer (R-MN) as speaker, but only if crucial policy matters are addressed. Democratic caucus leaders expressed confidence in Emmer, considering him the top choice among seven candidates, as reported by Punchbowl News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2077556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2077556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}