Trump Re-Shares Posts Blasting Republican Speaker Candidate 

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Former President Donald Trump will reportedly not endorse a candidate amid the House’s ongoing speakership battle – but he at least appears to be disapproving of one through a proxy.

Last week, Trump’s preferred selection – Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) – failed to garner the necessary votes to become speaker. This time, the former president is supposedly withholding his stamp of approval, though on Monday night he shared posts about Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) on Truth Social by far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.

One of the posts contains a video of Emmer supporting the abolition of the Electoral College in favor of electing the president via the national popular vote, which Trump lost in 2016. However, he won the presidency thanks to the Electoral College.

Loomer also focused on Emmer’s past as a spokesman for a group called National Popular Vote, which she tied to billionaire Democratic donor George Soros.

Of Minnesota’s four Republicans in Congress back in 2016, Emmer was the only one to attend the Republican National Convention that year, where he enthusiastically hailed Trump as the next president.

Emmer did, however, decline to object to President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory when Congress certified the results. Trump has falsely claimed the election was rigged against him.

The Minnesota lawmaker is one of eight candidates who are seeking the speakership after the House voted to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the post three weeks ago.