'New record': Here’s what may have caused 'shortest lived speaker-elect bid'

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minnesota) has withdrawn his speakership bid just three hours after he was selected as the nominee by his colleagues.

Several hard-right GOP members, including ex-President Donald Trump, publicly criticized Emmer following the nomination, calling him a RINO (Republican in name only) and the "most moderate" Republican.

During Tuesday's episode of MSNBC's Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace spoke with NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali about what's next now that Emmer has dropped out of the race.

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Vitali said, "It's a new record at least, Nicolle" Vitali said. "Emmer had the job of speaker designate for three hours. My understanding is he got it around 1:00. My understanding is he walked into the room behind me around 4:00, dropped out and left with a smile, but nary a word to reporters. Now they are back to the drawing board. It's a drawing board we have already looked at today — specifically Kevin Hern (R-Oklahoma) and Mike Johnson will once again vie for this position — which, again, I have no idea why anyone wants it at this point. But for Hern, he's someone who is coming into this with a lot of optimism having just spoken to him on his way into this meeting. and for Mike Johnson, he is still one of the last people within the existing leadership structure who could potentially rise into the speakership. I have no clue if they will be able to get the 217 [votes] that they need, but in order to answer that question, they have to get the majority in the room. So we'll see which of them comes out with the very coveted title of speaker-elect, and we'll go from there."

She continued, "But I think it's important to note, you know, because we have talked about it on this show: I'm not someone who thinks that former President Trump is a mover of votes here on Capitol Hill. But it is my understanding, according to one source familiar with what Emmer was doing in these intervening hours while trying to see if he could get the votes together, as soon as Trump tweeted saying he was a 'RINO' and basically didn't support him for this job, that's when I think Emmer realized the writing was on the wall. Because although Trump doesn't move votes, he can kind of stop votes from moving. And I think that could be one of the things that spelled doom for Emmer, even sooner. But it is the shortest lived speaker-elect bid that we have seen here. I'll go to the house historian Kyle Stewart, one of our producers, to see what the shortest one actually is, but this has gotta be in the running."

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