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4/5 of the freedom caucus was elected after president obama took office on an anti-obama, anti-obama tea party wave. the third were elected in the tea party heyday of 2010 and now they re causing the current leadership crisis in the party. now, there are 435 members of the house. 247 are republicans. to become speaker somebody s going to need 218 votes. right now 40-some members are blocking any speaker from getting elected. that is why we have a slew of people being floated as possible speakers. as of friday we had 20-some candidates. now we can add texas congressman bill flores to that group and texas congressman michael mccaul. and i have one more to add from texas, congressman pete sessions. that makes five total from texas. we also got utah congressman rob bishop s name being floated over the weekend and congressman mike popio from kansas increasing our ....
Anti-obamacare tea party wave. the third were elected in the tea party heyday of 2010. now they re causing the current leadership crisis in the party. there are 435 members of the house. 247 are republicans. to become speaker, somebody s going to need 218 votes. right now, 40 some members are blocking any speaker from getting elected. and that is why we have a slew of people being floated as possible speakers. as of friday, 20 some candidates. now we can add texas congressman bill flores to that group and michael mccaul. and i have one more to add from texas, congressman pete sessions. that makes five total from texas. we also got utah congress man ron bishop s name and mike pompeo from kansas increasing the number of potential speakers to 25 not including the noncongressional candidates like newt gingrich who said he would do it, the junior senator from the great state of arkansas, tom ....
They re causing the current leadership crisis in the party. now, there are 435 members of the house. 247 are republicans. to become speaker somebody s going to need 218 votes. right now 40-some members are blocking any speaker from getting elected. that is why we have a slew of people being floated as possible speakers. as of friday we had 20-some candidates. now we can add texas congressman bill flores to that group and texas congressman michael mccaul. and i have one more to add from texas, congressman pete sessions. that makes five total from texas. we also got utah congressman rob bishop s name being floated over the weekend and congressman mike popio from kansas increasing our number to 25. that isn t including the non-congressional candidates like newt gingrich, who said woe do it. and the junior senator from the great state of arkansas, tom carton cotton, excuse me, telling politico today that he would like to see former vice president dick cheney as the ....