{"id":4928,"date":"2023-10-15T07:42:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T07:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=4928"},"modified":"2023-10-15T07:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T07:42:38","slug":"whos-leading-the-gop-your-guess-is-as-good-as-theirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=4928","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s leading the GOP? Your guess is as good as theirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Who&#8217;s main the Home GOP? Your guess is nearly as good as theirs<\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s been per week and a half since Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Home speaker. Nonetheless, Republicans didn&#8217;t elect a brand new Home speaker, they usually didn\u2019t even come shut. Rep. Steve Scalise bought his convention\u2019s nod in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/11\/2198819\/-Scalise-gets-a-tepid-nod-for-speaker-from-House-Republicans\">113-99 vote over Rep. Jim Jordan<\/a><span>, however with Republican Freedom Caucus nihilists refusing to budge, he by no means got here near the 217 votes he wanted to safe the job. Quite than attempt to negotiate a cope with Democrats, he give up his bid on Thursday. It&#8217;s no shock that the Republican civil battle took heart stage this week, with a collection of fumbles and embarrassing headlines:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>OTHER STORIES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/8\/2198076\/-Donald-Trump-boasts-of-support-from-Hannibal-Lecter-at-campaign-rally-This-isn-t-a-joke\"><span>This isn&#8217;t a joke: Donald Trump boasts of support from Hannibal Lecter at campaign rally<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span>One other Donald Trump speech has left us with severe questions on his grip on actuality. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/11\/2198814\/-Ukraine-Update-Russia-suffers-catastrophic-losses-in-two-ill-fated-attacks\" title=\"\"><span>Ukraine Update: Russia suffers catastrophic losses in two ill-fated attacks<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Russia\u2019s effort at a serious land seize hit the brick wall of Ukrainian resistance. Ukraine claims tons of of Russian automobiles destroyed over the previous couple of days, lots of them visually documented in that story <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/12\/2199015\/-Ukraine-Update-More-details-emerge-around-Russia-s-Avdiivka-disaster\"><span>and its follow-up<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/11\/2198744\/-Former-Pence-aide-says-Trump-was-a-phony-Christian-who-disparaged-his-supporters-in-private\"><span>Former Pence aide says Trump is a phony Christian who &#8216;disparaged&#8217; his supporters in private<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Whereas it\u2019s at all times been obviously apparent that Donald Trump is a pretend populist and faux Christian, it\u2019s nonetheless good when Republicans\u2013particularly those that labored in his administration\u2013come ahead to verify it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/8\/2198103\/-Nom-nom-nom-leopard-ate-face-of-this-former-Trump-supporting-conservative-writer\"><span>Nom nom nom leopard ate face of this former Trump-supporting conservative writer<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>A Trump-loving conservative author now admits that Trump is destroying the Republican Celebration. Folks tried to warn him, however he knew higher! And now his celebration is struggling the implications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/10\/2198532\/-Trump-jumps-on-those-social-media-rumors-about-DeSantis-shoes\"><span>Rumors swirl over DeSantis&#8217; cowboy boots on Trump social network<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>We&#8217;ve got plenty of questions on what\u2019s occurring inside these DeSantis boots, which Donald Trump is gleefully spreading rumors about. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/11\/2198734\/-Tuberville-reports-former-CIA-head-to-police-over-a-mean-tweet\"><span>Tommy Tuberville calls the cops over a mean tweet<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>This freakin\u2019 man known as the cops on a retired basic. Severely. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/9\/2198354\/-Nom-nom-nom-Leopards-ate-face-of-Republicans-who-recruited-Kennedy-to-run-for-president\"><span>Leopards ate face of Republicans who recruited Kennedy to run for president<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Steve Bannon spent months recruiting conspiracy monger Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a \u201cchaos agent\u201d within the Democratic main. However Kennedy spent all summer season touring conservative media, constructing assist amongst Republicans, and now having failed within the Democratic main, he&#8217;s an unbiased candidate for president (the place his bid launched with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/9\/2198346\/--Curb-Your-Enthusiasm-RFK-Jr-s-independent-bid-starts-off-on-an-unintentionally-hilarious-note\"><span>absolutely hilarity<\/span><\/a><span>). Deliciously, all of the chaos is occurring on the Republican aspect. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/11\/2198756\/-We-don-t-talk-about-Leonard-The-man-behind-the-right-s-Supreme-Court-supermajority\"><span>We don\u2019t talk about Leonard: The man behind the right\u2019s Supreme Court supermajority<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>We&#8217;re nonetheless in awe of this ProPublica report on the driving pressure behind the corruption of the Supreme Courtroom. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/11\/2198756\/-We-don-t-talk-about-Leonard-The-man-behind-the-right-s-Supreme-Court-supermajority\"><span>We don\u2019t talk about Leonard: The man behind the right\u2019s Supreme Court supermajority<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image-captioned\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/zNDuMK4rITCit_MrrfxkoQgz3b-j9NhKR_WFojkpGONdY44av19NnWNrRvsR5XA3GAXVlWlsjGWzhBjRa7c_DMlh-1d7XftGXta4OmkVbD9a3HkidCGDx8FslvNCSEdC31eJgLqNwanCTUtTxnY97oY\" width=\"624\"\/><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/blogs\/comics\/\"><span>More comics here<\/span><\/a><span>. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/10\/14\/2199136\/-ICYMI-Who-s-leading-the-GOP-Your-guess-is-as-good-as-theirs?pm_campaign=blog&#038;pm_medium=rss&#038;pm_source=main\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s main the Home GOP? Your guess is nearly as good as theirs It\u2019s been per week and a half since Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Home speaker. Nonetheless, Republicans didn&#8217;t elect a brand new Home speaker, they usually didn\u2019t even come shut. Rep. Steve Scalise bought his convention\u2019s nod in a 113-99 vote over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1865,718,5340,3378,5339],"class_list":["post-4928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-good","tag-gop","tag-guess","tag-leading","tag-whos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}