00:00 Steve Scalise is withdrawing his candidacy for the chairmanship of the US Congress.
00:05 He did not receive enough support because of deviations.
00:09 The Republican Steve Scalise nominated for the chairmanship of the US House of Representatives
00:15 has withdrawn his candidacy.
00:17 Scalise said that last night, local time, at the US Congress, after he had failed to
00:24 secure sufficient support in his own faction.
00:27 He had nominated him for the influential post, but a majority in the Congress Chamber would
00:35 have been lost to him due to several deviations in the ranks of the Republicans.
00:40 "There are still some people who have their own agenda," Scalise said after a meeting
00:46 of his faction.
00:48 There would be differences of opinion that would have to be resolved.
00:52 Scalise warned, "This House of Representatives needs a chairman."
00:58 The chairman of the House of Representatives comes in the state ranking third after the
01:04 President and his vice.
01:05 Scalise was on Wednesday behind closed doors from his faction to the candidate
01:11 has been cured.
01:12 The voting result, however, was remarkably close.
01:16 The conservative politician set himself with 113 to 99 votes against his party rival Jim
01:24 Jordan, who is the successor of former US President Donald Trump.
01:30 Former Chairman Kevin McCarthy was last week in a historic vote as
01:36 Chairman of the House of Representatives has been elected.
01:40 Radical Republicans had him fired.
01:44 This was the first time in US history that a chairman of the House of Representatives
01:49 on this way to lose his job.
01:51 The drama brought the US Parliament to a standstill.
01:56 The US Republicans have in the House of Representatives only a small majority, so
02:02 Republican deviants have a powerful pressure in their hands, even if
02:07 there are only a few.
02:08 The party currently has 221 members in the Parliamentary Chamber.
02:15 It takes 217 votes to become the chairman to be elected.
02:22 Scalise would have only four deviants in his faction could afford.
02:26 On the votes of the Democrats by US President Joe Biden he could not count.
02:31 After his election as candidate had announced around a dozen Republicans, Scalise
02:37 to refuse their vote at a vote for the chairman.
02:41 The 58-year-old representative from Louisiana currently leads the Republican faction
02:47 in the chamber.
02:48 He is currently in treatment for blood cancer.
02:52 Many had initially doubts that he would be available for office at all
02:57 would.
02:58 Nevertheless, he was the second candidate besides Jordan, who announced after MC Carty's election
03:05 to run for the presidency.
03:07 Scalise has a strict conservative profile, agitated against abortion and against the same-sex
03:14 marriage.
03:15 He also speaks out against stricter gun laws, doubts the scientifically proven
03:21 Climate change and supported Trump's stop-and-go for people from Islamic-based
03:26 Countries.
03:27 In addition, Scalise made a speech in 2002 in front of a group of white racists
03:33 headlines, for which he later apologized.
03:36 Nevertheless, he himself is among some hardliners of the party as part of the rejected
03:42 political establishment in Washington.
