Fox News’s Bret Baier is scheduled to host a televised forum for the three candidates for Speaker of the House — an unusual move that follows Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) unprecedented ouster as Speaker.
House Majority Leader Scalise (R-La.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) would participate in the event on Monday at 6 p.m. EST.
The three men will all appear on the same stage together, according to two sources familiar with the plans, a format that Fox News is billing as a “joint interview” rather than a “debate.”
The network said Baier will “press the congressmen on who should be the next Speaker of the House and discuss the issues facing Congress and the Republican party going forward.”
I feel like that is kind of the whole point behind this thing. They get to completely shut down the government while they play up all the internal strife as if it’s not manufactured to keep the government from performing it’s job.
I don’t think it’s manufactured. They want Biden to eat the blame for the shutdown and economic damage they’re about to cause. It gets harder and harder to do that when they’re clearly the problem.
It’s possible they’re betting that optics won’t matter and that the president always eats the blame for the economy. But this is testing that theory as hard as humanly possible. Seems counterproductive to make more of a show of it.