Has Ayanna Pressley expressed any actual interest in the role of Speaker? Serious question, because I don’t want to be supporting a candidate for Speaker who doesn’t even want it. I have also heard Joe Neguse’s name thrown into the ring, but again, I have not hear that he has any interest.
On the other hand, Chris Van Hollen has expressed his interest – “I am listening” – so he definitely has my support.
Thank you for this excellent comment, links, numbers and all. Well done.
According to Axios, Neguse is seeking the assistant speaker position. Definitely the sort of position you don’t want to be on the wrong side of the actual speaker for. So I imagine he’d “reluctantly accept” the position, but not campaign for it.
Thank you for looking this up, I really appreciate it. I think your estimation is right, but that would seem to scupper Neguse’s chances for speaker, if the selection works the way AOC says it does.
She says that the actual party caucus Speaker vote in November (not the floor vote in January) is not run as an open thing. It has a fixed ballot, and a challenger has to formally put their name forward for consideration prior to the party vote by sending a letter to the rest of the House Democratic Caucus. If they do not, and their name is not already on the ballot, the process itself does not allow them to be chosen. This seems to be quite different than the Republican Speaker elections we’ve seen, especially in October 2023.
If you’re interested, AOC just recently put out a video on her IG reels explaining the Speaker position and selection process at length. It’s a long video but well worth the listen; scroll to the end of this article for the Instagram link. I downloaded it and ended up skipping at lot of the intro (“hey everybody! hey!”) and sped it up to 1.25, but I learned a lot.
Has Ayanna Pressley expressed any actual interest in the role of Speaker? Serious question, because I don’t want to be supporting a candidate for Speaker who doesn’t even want it. I have also heard Joe Neguse’s name thrown into the ring, but again, I have not hear that he has any interest.
On the other hand, Chris Van Hollen has expressed his interest – “I am listening” – so he definitely has my support.
Thank you for this excellent comment, links, numbers and all. Well done.
According to Axios, Neguse is seeking the assistant speaker position. Definitely the sort of position you don’t want to be on the wrong side of the actual speaker for. So I imagine he’d “reluctantly accept” the position, but not campaign for it.
Thank you for looking this up, I really appreciate it. I think your estimation is right, but that would seem to scupper Neguse’s chances for speaker, if the selection works the way AOC says it does.
She says that the actual party caucus Speaker vote in November (not the floor vote in January) is not run as an open thing. It has a fixed ballot, and a challenger has to formally put their name forward for consideration prior to the party vote by sending a letter to the rest of the House Democratic Caucus. If they do not, and their name is not already on the ballot, the process itself does not allow them to be chosen. This seems to be quite different than the Republican Speaker elections we’ve seen, especially in October 2023.
If you’re interested, AOC just recently put out a video on her IG reels explaining the Speaker position and selection process at length. It’s a long video but well worth the listen; scroll to the end of this article for the Instagram link. I downloaded it and ended up skipping at lot of the intro (“hey everybody! hey!”) and sped it up to 1.25, but I learned a lot.