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Biden, Trump and others weigh in on Mike Johnson as new House speaker; Nikki Haley gets a New Hampshire endorsement; and Ramaswamy will debate Khanna? The House at last has a new speaker and the 2024 presidential field has thoughts. Meanwhile, Vivek Ramaswamy says he's scheduled another debate -- but not with a GOP rival. And Nikki Haley picked up a notable endorsement. Here are campaign takeaways for Wednesday. Republican hopefuls weigh in on new Speaker Mike Johnson Mike Johnson's election by his Republican colleagues in the House ended three weeks in which the chamber didn't have a leader -- paralyzing half of Congress. In the wake of his win, Republican candidates have struck a supportive tone. Notably, however, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he "vehemently" disagrees with Johnson's actions in support of blocking the certification of the 2020 presidential election results but said that he wants to judge Johnson based on his upcoming action...

Tom Emmer, Kevin Hern, Byron Donalds and six other Republicans are now running for House speaker after Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan unsuccessfully ran Nine Republicans are officially running for speaker after almost three weeks of chaos without a leader in the House. House Republicans will hear from each candidate in a closed-door forum on Monday night. An internal secret-ballot vote will then be held on Tuesday morning, with the goal of selecting a lawmaker to be the party's nominee for speaker -- followed by a floor vote on electing that person as early as later Tuesday. Republicans have done this twice since Kevin McCarthy was deposed as speaker in early October. The two previous lawmakers, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, could not unify the party enough to be elected as McCarthy's successor, leaving one half of Congress in unprecedented limbo. According to House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, the followin...

Moderate House Republicans and institutionalists coalesced this week as the key opposition to Jim Jordan's ascent to House speaker Moderate House Republicans and institutionalists coalesced this week as the key opposition to Rep. Jim Jordan's ascent to speaker. It's the latest twist to what has become a weekslong fight among conservatives over who will lead the chamber and lift the paralysis over half of Congress. The dynamic confronting Jordan, the House Judiciary Committee chair who built a national profile as a hard-liner and firebrand, marks the reverse of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy's plight, when a small group of Republicans -- some of whom are close allies of Jordan -- voted to take away his gavel earlier this month, even as Jordan and others continued to urge support for McCarthy. Since then, the House hasn't had a speaker . Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., is serving in an interim role as a succession of Republican leaders have been chosen as the potenti...

Matt Gaetz has introduced a motion to remove Kevin McCarthy from the House speakership, setting up a dramatic vote over the future of the chamber's Republican majority Hard-line Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz on Monday night introduced a motion to remove Kevin McCarthy from the House speaker ship, setting up a dramatic vote over the future of the chamber's Republican majority. The motion must be voted on within two legislative days, under House rules. "Bring it on," McCarthy soon responded on X, formerly known as Twitter. Gaetz, a Florida lawmaker, had said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday that he would bring a so-called motion to vacate against McCarthy, criticizing how McCarthy has handled spending and budget fights since the GOP took control of the House in January and contending that McCarthy broke promises to other conservatives about how he would lead. "Kevin McCarthy, at one point or another, has lied to all of us," he said. McCarthy has p...

The battle between hardliners and Rep.-elect Kevin McCarthy heated up when Rep-elect Matt Gaetz accused him of being a "squatter" in the speaker's office. The battle between a small but influential group of Republican hardliners and Rep. Kevin McCarthy heated up Tuesday night when Rep. Matt Gaetz accused the House GOP leader of squatting in the speaker's office. McCarthy had his belongings moved into the space on Monday, before he failed multiple times to get enough votes to clinch the speaker 's gavel. "What is the basis in law, House rule, or precedent to allow someone who has placed second in three successive speaker elections to occupy the Speaker of the House Office?" Gaetz wrote in a letter to the Architect of the Capitol. Gaetz wrote to that "after three undeciding votes, no member can lay claim to this office ." “How long will he remain there before he is considered a squatter ?” Gaetz wrote. Gaetz stood up twice on Tuesday to offer ...