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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said he will run for the top GOP leadership post in the aftermath of his party\u2019s devastating midterm losses.<\/p>\n

In a letter sent to fellow House Republicans<\/a>, Scalise highlighted the need for unity and a \u201cclear vision and agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am ready to lead on day one and chart our path back to the majority,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

The Louisianan, who has served as the GOP\u2019s No. 2 or No. 3 leader for more than a decade, was long expected to jump into the race, given his longtime ambitions and robust campaigning and fundraising for fellow GOP lawmakers and candidates.<\/p>\n

He made his announcement after Speaker Mike Johnson, whom Scalise helped propel from back-bench obscurity, said Wendesday morning he would not seek a leadership position in the upcoming Congress.<\/p>\n

Scalise will face Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the Judiciary Committee chair who announced his bid for the position<\/a> earlier Wednesday, arguing he was a \u201cbattle-tested\u201d leader ready to take on the new Democratic majority.<\/p>\n

Scalise has been House majority leader since 2023. In 2017, during his time as House majority whip, he was seriously wounded by a would-be assassin who attacked Republican lawmakers who were practicing for the annual congressional baseball game.<\/p>\n

After then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted in 2023, Scalise made a bid for the gavel but faced skepticism from the hard right and was ultimately unable to secure enough votes.<\/p>\n

He won a majority in an internal GOP conference vote, but a group of holdouts refused to support him during the public floor vote in a bid to elevate Jordan. This time, Scalise would only need a majority vote in the GOP conference to be elected minority leader.<\/p>\n

Scalise pointed to his past leadership and played up his credibility \u2014 after some members criticized Johnson for seeming to make contradictory promises<\/a> to different blocs of the conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am always honest about our challenges but work to solve them in the most conservative and consensus-driven way possible,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s what you\u2019ve come to expect from me and that will be more important than ever in the next two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said he will run for the top GOP leadership post in the aftermath of his party\u2019s devastating midterm losses. In a letter sent to fellow House Republicans, Scalise highlighted the need for unity and a \u201cclear vision and agenda.\u201d \u201cI am ready to lead on day one and chart our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}