Scalise resigns - the chaos in the Republicans continues
Republican Steve Scalise is withdrawing his candidacy to become the new speaker of the US House of Representatives, he himself announced according to US media.
Scalise was nominated on Wednesday, after narrowly winning against Trump favorite Jim Jordan. But now Scalise states that the divisions within the party mean that he cannot gather the 217 Republican votes required to be elected Speaker. Thus, the recent chaos within the Republicans continues.
- There are some who really need to look in the mirror in the coming days and decide if we are going to get back on track or if they are going to try to pursue their own agendas, Scalise said after a closed meeting in Congress, according to Politico.
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Analysis: Crisis in the world - but the Republicans are just arguing
Despite the fact that there is a war going on in Ukraine and one in Israel and Palestine, the Republicans cannot get together and produce a new speaker for the American House of Representatives, writes Carl Hulse in an analysis in the New York Times.
The party is so consumed by its internal strife that Steve Scalise felt compelled to throw in the towel before the House of Representatives was scheduled to vote on him as the new speaker Thursday night, according to Hulse. He draws historical parallels to the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, when the politicians put their "personal and political differences aside". Now, however, writes Hulse, there are no signs that the Republicans "are ready to end their nagging".
In an analysis for CNN published before Scalise announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy, Stephen Collinson writes that it is not just the wars on the other side of the Atlantic that are casting a shadow over the presidential process. The threatened shutdown of the American state apparatus is also pressuring the Republicans to produce a new president, he believes.
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