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Ryan to seek speakership if unity candidate of House GOP

Ryan to seek speakership if unity candidate of House GOP

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Tuesday, October 20th 2015 at 8:39PM · 698 views
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan told GOP lawmakers late Tuesday that he will run for speaker, but only if he emerges by week's end as their consensus candidate — a bid to impose unity on a disordered and divided House.

Ryan spoke to the House GOP behind closed doors and said if all factions can share his vision and he can get the endorsement of the major caucuses, then he "be all in."

The 45-year-old Ryan, under intense pressure to seek the post, gave his colleagues until Friday to express their support. The question will be whether he can win over the hardline House Freedom Caucus, which drove the current speaker, John Boehner, to announce his resignation and scared off Boehner's No. 2, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

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Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, October 20th 2015 at 9:07PM

Do Ryan have to votes to be speaker among the far right wing of the party?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Tuesday, October 20th 2015 at 10:17PM

Paul Ryan Meets with Freedom Caucus WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans, searching for a speaker to lead them out of crisis, waited to learn Tuesday whether Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)

58% would shoulder the thankless task.

Ryan and his aides were saying little ahead of a closed-door late-evening meeting, the first such gathering following a weeklong recess many spent in a state of suspended animation, waiting to hear from Ryan.

But in a sign that he is exploring the possibility, Ryan was meeting with the House Freedom Caucus at their request, his spokesman said. This group of three dozen or so hardline conservatives pushed current Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)

37% to announce his resignation and scared off Boehner’s No. 2, Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)

45%, who abruptly withdrew from the speaker’s race just before the recess.

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