“As the No. 2 Republican in the House, Steve Scalise is in pole position to be the new speaker. But his seniority and the prospect of an orderly transition might be liabilities in the eyes of the forces that doomed former speaker Kevin McCarthy,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Republicans’ narrow House majority has given extraordinary leverage to a small band of antiestablishment conservatives who now want more influence in the inner sanctum. Some view Scalise, who has spent nearly a decade working his way up House leadership, as too much a product of the traditional system to lead a conference with various factions that want to throw out the old playbook.”
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