House Republicans have chosen Utah’s Blake D. Moore as a moderate replacement for Speaker Mike Johnson’s old spot in party leadership.
Moore, a second-term Republican, defeated six other candidates in a closed GOP meeting to become the party’s conference vice chair Wednesday morning.
With no prior political experience before being elected to Congress, Moore is continuing a yearlong slingshot to prominence in GOP circles. He started 2023 earning a seat on the coveted Ways and Means Committee and took on a larger conference-wide leadership role, becoming vice chair of the Republican Governance Group. The 40-plus member bloc of center-right lawmakers is one of the “five families,” or ideological caucuses that members have identified as having sway within the GOP.
