Scalise lacks votes from hardline Republicans to become next House speaker – as it happened
by Maya Yang (now); Joanna Walters (earlier) from US news | The Guardian on (#6FGRY)
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Here's a little more from South Carolina's Republican representative Nancy Mace's interview on CNN during which she said she would not vote for Steve Scalise as House speaker.
Mace, who has thrown her support behind far-right Ohio representative Jim Jordan, said that she actually talked to Democrats who trust him at his word."
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