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.

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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