House Majority Leader Steve Scalise will drop out of the House Speakership race after falling far too short of the 217 votes needed in the GOP caucus to win in a full floor vote, Newsmax reports.
And yes, it’s Newsmax, but on Wednesday they broke that Scalise had defeated Jim Jordan more than a half hour before the other guys did, so we feel in this specific instance – especially one with no obvious political motive for them to lie like they did about Dominion and Smartmatic – they’re probably reporting correctly, straight from sources inside the House Republican conference.