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House speaker vote live updates: Rep. Tom Emmer withdraws as GOP nominee for speaker

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House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who won the nomination for speaker in the fifth round of voting in a secret ballot Tuesday, dropped out of the race just a few hours later, sources say.

Republican Tom Emmer abruptly abandoned his bid to become House speaker Tuesday, withdrawing hours after winning the internal party nomination once it became clear he would not have enough support from GOP colleagues for the gavel.

Dejected Republicans retreated behind closed doors, desperately searching for a way out of the chaos they have created. But no sooner did Emmer win the majority vote of his colleagues than his nomination was shot down by a powerful detractor he had tried to win over - Trump, the Republican front-runner for the 2024 presidential election, who has long criticized the party's former campaign chief as disloyal.

"He doesn't have the support in the room right now," said Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., who had challenged Emmer at the start of the year. "We'll see where we go from here." With Republicans controlling the House 221-212 over Democrats, any GOP nominee can afford just a few detractors to win the gavel. Those running for speaker were mostly conservatives and election deniers, who either voted against certifying the 2020 presidential election results, when Biden defeated Trump, in the runup to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, or joined a subsequent lawsuit challenging the results.

 

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