{"id":1290499,"date":"2023-10-24T18:20:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=aec67b70d6a86bcbeafe88a95135e095"},"modified":"2023-10-24T18:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:20:24","slug":"republicans-select-minnesota-congressman-tom-emmer-as-speaker-designate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/24\/republicans-select-minnesota-congressman-tom-emmer-as-speaker-designate\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Select Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer as Speaker Designate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After five rounds of secret balloting within the Republican Party&rsquo;s House conference on Tuesday, the GOP has selected Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota to be the party&rsquo;s nominee for speaker of the House. Emmer becomes the third speaker designate that Republicans have chosen since the full House decided earlier this month to oust Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-California) from the position.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/republicans-select-minnesota-congressman-tom-emmer-as-speaker-designate\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/republicans-select-minnesota-congressman-tom-emmer-as-speaker-designate\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Republicans are guessing that as many as 26 of their own party members will reject Tom Emmer in a full House vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7260,7504,4,276,9961,56735],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290500,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290499\/revisions\/1290500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}