Scalise Seeking Support To Stand for Speaker as Race To Succeed McCarthy Takes Shape

The House Republican Conference could choose a top lieutenant to the former speaker or go with a conservative outsider in the hopes of appeasing the right wing faction in the GOP.

AP/J. Scott Applewhite, file
Representatives Kevin McCarthy, left, and Steve Scalise at the Capitol on December 14, 2022. AP/J. Scott Applewhite, file

Speaker McCarthy’s decision against standing for reelection to the speakership opens the way for ambitious Republicans who now have a rare opening to step into the House’s top job — albeit at a perilous moment. Will the House GOP, with its slender majority, stick with Mr. McCarthy’s lieutenants and risk ending up in the same place they are now? Or will it advance a more moderate candidate in the hopes of winning Democratic support?

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