Washington. The Republican Party The candidacy ball began this Wednesday to elect the next president of the House of Representatives in the event that his victory is confirmed in the mid-term elections in the US, in which the projections suggest that they will recover the majority.
Although the current Republican minority leader, Kevin McCarty, appeared as the obvious candidate to succeed Democrat Nancy Pelosi in the Lower House, the expected results, less loose than anticipated, have caused potential competitors to come out on the same side.
This is the case of the “number two” of the conservatives in the House of Representatives, Steve Scalise, who in a letter to his party colleagues leaked this Wednesday by the media advanced his intention to run for office.
“I ask for your support to be the next Majority Leader. Americans deserve a House of Representatives that can advance the agenda they were promised on the campaign trail. As your leader, I will work tirelessly to (…) show the country how conservative ideas can solve the problems families face,” he said in that letter.
Scalise, 57, is a Louisiana State Representative. He warned that the Lower House has no time to waste and that better coordination is needed between its different committees and to hold the Joe Biden Administration accountable for its actions, such as the “politicization of the Department of Justice.”
The legislator also pointed out that the legislative process must be put in order, giving priority, for example, to quality over quantity or imposing a schedule that allows them to achieve the objectives set.
The conservatives, according to media projections, have so far secured 206 seats in the House of Representatives, 12 from the majority and 49 in the Senate, two from control and where the battle hangs on what happens in the states from Arizona, Georgia and Nevada.
The conservative network Fox advanced that if the Republicans do not reach 225 seats in the Lower House, McCarthy will see his eventual leadership discussed.
The current leader of the minority also wrote this Wednesday to the members of his formation to ask for their support in the new stage: “I am determined to guarantee that this majority reaches its full potential,” he said in a letter also leaked by the media.
The president, Joe Biden, appealed to prudence this Wednesday: “We still have the possibility of keeping the House of Representatives, but it will be tight,” he said at a press conference from the White House.
