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(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kang Byeong-cheol = With former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of the U.S. Republican Party being ousted due to a revolt by hardliners, Republican House Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who are running for the new House Speaker, are holding an unusual public debate. .
American media, including Bloomberg News, reported on the 6th that Fox News, an American conservative media outlet, announced on the 9th (local time) that it had decided to hold such a debate.
Bloomberg News reported that it is rare for the Republican Party, which holds the majority in the House of Representatives, to hold a public debate on TV over an internal race to decide who to elect as the next Speaker of the House.
Rep. Kevin Hearn (Oklahoma), chairman of the Republican Study Committee, who has not yet formalized his candidacy, will also participate in the debate.
This debate is taking place ahead of the House Republican Party’s announcement of candidates’ political views (on the 10th) and the election of its own candidates (on the 11th).
Former President Donald Trump, the leading candidate for the Republican presidential election, expressed his support for Chairman Jordan the day before, but the general assessment of the American media is that neither Representative Scalise nor Chairman Jordan has clearly secured the majority of votes necessary for election.
To be elected as Speaker of the House, 218 votes are needed, but since the Republican Party only has 221 seats, it is difficult to get elected if some votes break away within the Republican Party.
Even when former Speaker McCarthy was elected at the beginning of the year, about 20 hardliners collectively voted against the election, and voting continued 15 times.
For this reason, there is an analysis that hard-liner votes are important in the party’s primary for the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
For the same reason, it is predicted that in the debate, the candidates will likely engage in a ‘conservative sharpness’ showdown over government spending reform, border and immigration issues, etc.
Floor Leader Scallis is evaluated as being more conservative than former Speaker McCarthy, and Chairman Jordan, who is more hardline than Floor Leader Scalise, is one of the founding members of the ‘Freedom Caucus’, a group of hardliners within the party.
In relation to this, Representative Matt Gates (Florida), who led the resolution to dismiss former Speaker McCarthy, told Newsmax, “Whether it is Scalise or Jordan, there is no conservative who would not think that this is a monumental upgrade compared to former Speaker McCarthy.” .
The New York Times reported that the two people, who are ‘right-clicking’ compared to former Chairman McCarthy, have conflicting positions on support for Ukraine.
Chairman Jordan recently voted against continuing aid to Ukraine, but Representative Scalise supported it.
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