House Speaker Election House Republicans Nominate Tom Emmer to Be Speaker

The Minnesota representative won a majority of votes in a closed-door meeting of Republicans. He will be the third candidate to try to win over broad support from a fractured party in a vote before the full House.

Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the No. 3 House Republican, on Tuesday secured his divided partys nomination to be speaker, after five rounds of secret balloting to break a deadlock that has left Congress leaderless and paralyzed for three weeks.

But the narrow margin of his victory reflected that House Republicans were still deeply at odds, and a swift backlash from the right, including from former President Donald J. Trump, suggested his candidacy was in peril.

Immediately following his nomination, about two dozen right-wing Republicans indicated that they did not intend to vote for Mr. Emmer on the floor, denying him the majority he would need to succeed in a vote of the full House. Then as he met with holdouts to try to win them over, the former president issued a scathing statement on social media expressing vehement opposition to Mr. Emmer, calling him a Globalist RINO short for Republican in name only whose elevation would be a tragic mistake.

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