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Tom Emmer
October 3, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republicans Are Desperate to Move on From Trump’s Favorite Topic
Representative Tom Emmer insisted that talking about Donald Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy was pointless.
October 1, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Sounds Like J.D. Vance’s V.P. Debate Prep Is Going as Well as Expected
Representative Tom Emmer struggled to explain how J.D. Vance had prepared to face off against Tim Walz.
October 1, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Republican Flails Upon Seeing Vance’s Terrible Polling Ahead of Debate
Representative Tom Emmer, who helped J.D. Vance with his debate prep, appeared shocked by Vance’s massive unpopularity.
March 8, 2024
Pablo Manríquez
Mike Johnson Keeps Losing Embarrassing Votes. The Reason? This Guy.
Tom Emmer might be the least effective majority whip in congressional history.
October 24, 2023
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
Day 21: Republicans Lose Their House Speaker Pick in Record Time
Goodbye, Tom Emmer, we hardly knew ye.
October 24, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Republicans Pick Yet Another Election Denier as Next House Speaker
Republicans keep nominating one election denier after the next.
October 20, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
,
Jason Linkins
Meet Tom Emmer: The New Front-Runner for the Worst Job in Washington
The Minnesota lawmaker announced his plans to pursue a bid not long after his Republican colleagues nixed Jim Jordan.
October 13, 2023
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
The House Republican Caucus Is in Chaos (Again)
Steve Scalise dropped out of the speaker’s race just 30 hours after receiving his party’s nomination. Can any Republican lead the House?
October 2, 2023
Pablo Manríquez
Could We Really Be Headed Toward—Gulp—Speaker Stefanik?
Kevin McCarthy’s fate may well be decided this week. If he’s out, who’s in? The list is short—and grim.
November 15, 2022
Patrick Caldwell
Tom Emmer Wins the Thankless Task of Corralling the GOP’s Likely Narrow House Majority
Meet the Minnesota Republican who led the party’s midterm campaigns.
August 16, 2022
Magazine
Patrick Caldwell
Tom Emmer Is the Republican Party’s Stealth Bomber
Back in Minnesota, Emmer made his name as a fringe firebrand. Now head of the NRCC, he’s learned to mute his rhetoric—mostly—and is quietly climbing the ladder of House Republican leadership.
September 14, 2010
James Downie
,
Alexander C. Hart
Year of the Nutjob
September 2, 2010
James Downie
,
Alexander C. Hart
Year of the Nutjob
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