House Republicans emerge from meeting saying conference is divided over way forward

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• Speaker Johnson calls on Columbia University president to resign and threatens federal funding for colleges
• What you missed on Day 8 of Trump's trial: New witnesses and contact info for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal
• Israel-Hamas war
• House Republican Leaders on Congressional Budget Office Briefing
• House Democratic Leadership News Conference
• President Biden on Release of Hostages in Gaza

“We already had upwards of 20 who said they could not support Tom Emmer,” he said. “We are again back to where we started.” Nehls himself voted present when his name was called, he told reporters. "I don't defend the performance of the speaker, I don't defend the actions that have been taken," Good told reporters after the Friday vote. "However, that doesn't mean that I support what I would consider to be not the most prudent action right now. We're six months before an election, we have a two-three vote margin." Trump is the likely GOP presidential nominee, is very popular among the GOP base but still deeply unpopular among swing voters. “These incumbents are going to have to run under the banner of Trump for president,” Fleischman said.

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Speaker Johnson calls on Columbia University president to resign and threatens federal funding for colleges

Topics included the 2022 midterm elections, border security, and the economy. Though McCarthy declined to certify some of the 2020 presidential election results, Johnson went a step further and rallied more than 100 Republicans to back his brief endorsing a lawsuit to overturn the election. Johnson has repeatedly backed measures to ban abortion nationwide and worked for a nonprofit, labeled an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, that defended the state-sanctioned sterilization of transgender people.

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The former National Republican Congressional Committee chairman was first elected to Congress in 2014 and became majority whip earlier this year. Emmer, who lost a race for Minnesota governor in 2010, was a state representative from 2004 to 2008. GOP Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas just left the room where the Republican conference is meeting and said there is "significant opposition" to speaker nominee Tom Emmer in the room. GOP Rep. Brandon Williams of New York told CNN’s Manu Raju there were 26 votes against Speaker designee Tom Emmer during the closed-door roll call vote and said that Emmer is trying to resolve the concerns of those members in the room right now on open mic.

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With Gosar signing onto the effort to oust the speaker it means Johnson will likely need votes from Democrats if the resolution comes up for a vote. The GOP majority shrinks to a one-vote margin after Wisconsin GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher's resignation becomes official, which is expected after the House votes on the foreign aid package. The clownish lead investigator, House Oversight Committee chair and Fox News regular Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, last month told donors in a fundraising letter — notice a pattern here, Republican leaders playing to monied interests? — that instead of seeking Biden’s impeachment, he’ll send a criminal referral (again, crimes TBD) to the Justice Department.

The five Californians’ decision to back the Ohioan could come back to haunt them. Jordan’s deep ties to Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election may not sit well with key voters in swing districts, Democratic strategist and pollster Cornell Belcher told The Times on Friday. Capitol building and end proxy voting, which was approved by Democrats during the COVID-19 pandemic to allow absent lawmakers to have another member cast votes for them. He also vowed to entrust House committees with drafting and marking up bills, and marshal resources to allow the House to conduct oversight of the Biden administration. While McCarthy was able to corral enough backing to win the nomination from his GOP colleagues, the conference's slim control of the House gives the conservative faction more leverage. His ability to wrangle votes from his fellow GOP members is also likely to be tested when it comes to must-pass measures, such as legislation funding the government and addressing the debt limit, as the U.S. is expected to hit its borrowing limit in 2023.

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Republican Rep. Max Miller called for an extra week for the House GOP to decide on a nominee and said that people in the room were “broken." The issue is likely to be put directly before voters in November's election. GOP state Rep. Alexander Kolodin likewise accused the body, including the Republicans joining with Democrats, of moving forward because of political pressures and likened abortion to the killing of "infants." The repeal of the abortion ban would then take effect 90 days after the end of the legislative session, which must be before June 30. Two Republican senators have already said they will support the repeal effort, signaling the House bill should pass that chamber and then go to Gov. Katie Hobbs' desk to be signed into law. "I've known for a while that the votes were there, it just takes a lot of fortitude, a lot of spine," Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, who sponsored the bill, told ABC News' Jaclyn Lee.

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But leading conservatives like Trump, former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and Senate candidate Kari Lake have touted their general support for abortion restrictions but said the 1864 ban goes too far. Many state Republican lawmakers sharply objected on Wednesday to the push to undo the Civil War-era ban that has roiled the politics of the state after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that it is enforceable. The Senate on Wednesday separately conducted a second read of its own abortion ban repeal bill, without objection, setting up a parallel vote -- though that is likely moot now because the House bill has been approved. Three Republicans on Wednesday joined Democrats in the Arizona House to vote to repeal the state's controversial 1864 ban on nearly all abortions, which was revived by a court ruling earlier this month and which only includes exceptions to save the life of the pregnant woman. It’s not simply that Ms. Greene has taken such a Putin-pleasing approach to Russia’s war in Ukraine (Ukrainian Nazis? Really?) that the term “useful idiot” feels unavoidable. She has, in very little time, undermined the influence of her party’s entire right flank, driving less unhinged Republicans — most notably the House speaker, Mike Johnson — to brush back her and her ilk like the poo-flinging chaos monkeys they are.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in multiple interviews this afternoon refused to rule himself out in the run for the speakership, insisting the GOP conference will decide. Meanwhile, Rep. Mike Lawler of New York called Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz a "vile" person and said that he should be expelled from the conference. Gaetz, along with other GOP hardliners, moved to oust McCarthy from the speakership.

Washington — House Republicans nominated Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the current minority leader, as their candidate for speaker of the House on Tuesday, with McCarthy overcoming a conservative challenger as the party inches closer to winning control of the lower chamber. Norman noted that Republicans need someone "we can trust" and said "we'll find out who that person is and are they gonna do what they say." He stressed that he wants commitments from all speaker candidates on what they will and won't do while holding the gavel. Specifically, Norman said the Freedom Caucus wants to sit down with the nominee and ask tough questions. Emmer defeated a panel of seven other fellow Republicans Tuesday to earn the nomination. However, it remains to be seen if he'll have the necessary votes on the House floor to get the gavel.

Emmer, who voted to certify the 2020 election in a rebuke to former President Donald Trump, could face resistance from some members of the House Freedom Caucus skeptical of the current GOP leadership team and as Trump’s allies have attacked him. Womack said it's going to be up to Emmer to decide if he wants to go to the floor for a speakership vote, but that he's going to likely want to meet with holdouts and see how set they are in their stances. “I believe so,” McCarthy said when pressed on whether there will be a speaker this time next week. In multiple interviews this afternoon, the California Republican refused to rule himself out in the run for the speakership, insisting the GOP conference will decide. But Scalise allies, who believe the Louisiana Republican can secure a majority of the conference but acknowledge he won’t get 217 votes on the first ballot, are against the move.

There is also some discussion of including funding for border security funding and for Taiwan in an eventual package, as there is growing uncertainty over how future supplemental packages would fare in the GOP-controlled House. Asked about the frustration expressed against the eight Republicans who voted to remove McCarthy, Womack said there a lot of “free agents” in the conference. “Pretty good discussion, a lot of opinions; we’re kind of like a scattergram, we're all over the map in terms of the way forward. Some of it about rules changes, some of it about, you know, hard feelings about what happened on Tuesday,” Womack said.

Republican voters have become more likely to hold their own party accountable for the chaos in Washington. On Sept. 11, 32% of Republicans polled said they would blame their party most ifthe government were to shut down. Forty-nine percent of GOP respondents disapprove of how congressional Republicans are handling their jobs, according to a Thursday poll conducted by Global Strategy Group and released by Navigator Research, a Democratic firm. Sixty-nine percent of all voters said they disapproved of the way congressional Republicans handle their jobs.

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul warned that the conference should elect a new speaker by Wednesday to avoid appearances of weakness and dysfunction amid war in Israel. The campaign has said that they have gathered more than 500,000 signatures -- surpassing the necessary threshold, but will continue to gather signatures "until the wheels fall off," a spokesperson told ABC News. "At the end of the day, your politics is important but it is not worth our souls," he said.