After less than 24 hours as the GOP nominee, Tom Emmer is withdrawing from the Speaker race.
According to a Fox News report, Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who previously secured a plurality of votes in the Speaker’s race, is dropping out of the race.
From Fox News:
But it quickly became clear that he did not have enough support to outright win a House-wide vote. With Republicans’ razor-thin majority, a GOP speaker-designate can only lose four members of their own party to win the gavel without Democratic support.
At least 25 Republicans said they would not support Emmer in a House floor vote after he won the title.
More GOP lawmakers indicated after the roll call that the conference needed to move on to a new nominee.
This story is developing…