Rep. Don Bacon said he’s confident that there will be a new House speaker Tuesday night and that the conference should support “a majority of the majority.”
“I think people are so discouraged by what's happened the last three weeks, that they want to come together. I think we have a great team in there right now. They're making some great cases, and I think we'll have a speaker tomorrow night. I'm hopeful for that,” the Nebraska Republican said.
Though Bacon would not say who he would support directly, he praised Majority Whip Tom Emmer.
Bacon had a message for those members who set the process in motion by voting to vacate the chair, which ended the speakership of Kevin McCarthy.
“I hope everybody learned a lesson. When you're five people or eight people and you undercut the majority, there's a price to pay. And that's what happened last week,” he said.
Bacon also addressed the threatening calls that he and his family have received. Several Republicans who opposed Rep. Jim Jordan’s speakership bid said they are experiencing angry calls, menacing messages and even death threats since casting their votes.
“The bullying and the threat-making, the harassment, that's not OK,” he said. “As a Republican I reject it. And if you want to bully and harass myself, it ain’t gonna work, right? So hopefully they figured that out.”