Episode 2366
Tom Emmer
Wed, 2023-Oct-25 01:41 UTC
Length - 2:37
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With 246,187 views on Tuesday, 24 October 2023 our article of the day is Tom Emmer.
Thomas Earl Emmer Jr. (born March 3, 1961) is an American attorney and politician who has served as majority whip in the United States House of Representatives since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he has represented Minnesota's 6th congressional district since 2015. Emmer was the House Republican Conference's third nominee for the October 2023 Speaker of the House election, after Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan either withdrew or failed to garner the votes needed; he subsequently withdrew himself from the race hours after being nominated.
Before his election to Congress, Emmer served three terms as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011. He lost the 2010 Minnesota gubernatorial election to Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party nominee Mark Dayton by less than half a percentage point. Emmer was elected to Congress in 2014, winning the 6th district seat being vacated by Michele Bachmann. He has since been reelected four times. The district includes the far western and northern suburbs of Minneapolis in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, most of the St. Cloud metropolitan area, as well as a large part of rural Central Minnesota, generally an agricultural region.
Emmer chaired the National Republican Congressional Committee from 2019 to 2023. After Republicans gained a majority in the 2022 U. S. House of Representatives elections, he successfully ran for majority whip. Emmer initially cast doubt on the 2020 presidential election results, baselessly asserting that certain states used "questionable" practices in administering the vote. After signing an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit seeking to contest the outcome in key swing states, Emmer ultimately voted to certify the Electoral College vote count.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:41 UTC on Wednesday, 25 October 2023.
For the full current version of the article, see Tom Emmer on Wikipedia.
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