It isn't enough to not like a particular candidate for Speaker of the House.
THERE NEEDS TO BE ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE WHO IS RUNNING.
Last I heard there was not.
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People are interpreting an online 'agenda' as a feeler. It is supposedly triggered by the screwed up Hegseth vote today. Here is an explanation...
There actually does not need to be an alternative. If a sufficient number refuse to vote for Jeffries that he can't get a 218 majority, then they can hold up the vote, as the Republicans did in 2024. If they stand tough, they can demand an alternative. That's how Johnson got the Speakership after many votes.
Agree this is all very unlikely, but that is the mechanism that could come into play.
https://www.voanews.com/a/explainer-how-the-house-of-representatives-elects-a-speaker/6907009.html
That's not how the voting works. You can find AOC talking about this, among others.
Yes, they can theoretically deny the position, but the anomaly in the case you mention was that _other people were candidates_. There were SEVEN republican candidates, if memory serves, when things kicked off.
Here there's exactly one. They need someone else to want the job, and at the moment no one seems to.
Not sure what you are saying. By the rules they need a majority of the quorum. So if 40 Dems hang tight and just vote for someone else, and no Republicans vote for Jeffries, he's not elected. The 40 can hold it up, and demand they pick someone else. Not saying it will go down that way, but that's the leverage that can be brought to bear.
The point is there is no one else to vote for. No one else wants the job. Jeffries is unopposed.
So who do they pick? Someone who doesn't want the job? Because that's what you are looking at right now.
They start this with a closed door ballot before it ever gets to the floor of the House, and that ballot has on it everyone who wants the job. At the moment that is _one person_.
@hrefna Bluesky has somehow coalesced on a fan consensus to nominate Ayanna Pressley but Ayanna Pressley has not to my knowledge accepted this idea and may not even be aware Bluesky has such a meme; and IMO she needs two years to successfully run for such a position not two months
As a constituent of Ayanna Pressley I'd be very excited about her spending the next 2 years running to replace Jeffries in 2028