Scalise makes House speaker pitch after Trump endorses Jordan: I know how to 'unify'
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House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., shares his pitch on why he should be the next House speaker despite former President Trump endorsing Rep. Jim Jordan.
STEVE SCALISE: We [Trump and I] spoke, obviously. A lot of friendships in this race. A lot of folks that have been talking to other folks on the outside to bring into this race. There's a lot of interest in this race. But at the end of the day, it's a lot of one-on-one conversations over the last few days I've been having with my colleagues and a lot of introspection about how we get things back on track. The problems that we have internally, they don't go away with the new speaker. But the real question the members have is how do we get things back on track? And the reason I've been able to build such a strong base of support over these last few days that's been growing is that I've got a long proven record and somebody who knows how to unify Republicans to fight on the battles that matter for the families who gave us this majority. They want us to be fighting over border security, getting spending under control. It's driving inflation. The things that we came here to do are what we've got to get back on track doing. And that's the conversations we've been having these last few days. And we're going to continue having. We got to get this resolved soon. That's going to get resolved Wednesday in our conference. But then we've got to go back fighting for those families who are struggling because that's what the real fight's about. Madeline Coggins is a Digital Production Assistant on the Fox News flash team with Fox News Digital.
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