
Just hours after House Republicans — with much dissent — nominated Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., to replace former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif, Emmer bowed out of the speakership race on Tuesday.
House Republicans are now in talks about suspending conference rules to open the speaker nominations, which would do away with the candidate forum, according to Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan. If successful, the move would make Reps. Kevin Hern, R-Okla. and Mike Johnson, R-La., candidates.