House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) listens during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol Building on July 14, 2023 in Washington, DC.
epublican Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota wants to be the next House Majority Leader, but he’s already facing a formidable obstacle: the wrath of Trump World.on Wednesday that he was running for the leadership position, a group of Trump’s Congressional and media allies began plotting to derail his candidacy, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
As the GOP’s current House Majority Whip, he’s next in line to move up the leadership chain. But Trump loyalists insist that the former President, who has ain virtually all of the Republican primary polls, would have a hard time working with Emmer if he’s elected president next year.on CNN.com that quotes Emmer telling GOP candidates to “focus on the issues that matter to voters” as a sign of his disloyalty.
Emmer’s team says he never told candidates to distance themselves from Trump, but to craft their campaign strategies around winning voters in their districts. “Whip Emmer is focused on earning the support of his colleagues for House Majority Leader,” an aide to Emmer, Michael McAdams, tells TIME. “If he is successful in that effort, he looks forward to working with President Trump just like he did as NRCC Chair.
Sources close to Trump say he is letting the Speaker’s election play out, even as some of his top Congressional boosters, like Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, have floated the former President himself as a potential McCarthy successor. Yet the MAGA faithful have taken an acute interest in the way the House reshuffling could reverberate further down the GOP leadership ladder, sending a signal to House Republicans that they should block Emmer’s ascension.
Emmer has been a member of Congress since 2015. Last year, he was elected GOP majority whip, the third highest position in House Republican leadership, in a competitive three-way battle in which Emmer’s adversaries leveled some of the same charges against him. During the 2022 midterms, he led the NRCC, the main arm of the GOP tasked with electing Republicans to the House, when the party picked up fewer seats than expected but still won a narrow House majority.
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