Who is Tom Emmer, the Minnesota Republican who dropped out of the race for House Speaker just hours after being nominated?

U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, the House majority leader who withdrew his presidential bid  after being threatened Tuesday afternoon, sought to offset a sometimes lukewarm voting record by trying to appeal to his base, Donald Trump. Republican Party. 

 The move comes just hours after the Minnesota Republican became the new candidate for House  speaker  in the race to replace Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted from office on October 3 in a historic ouster. Thanks to the GOP's slim majority in the House, Emmer could  afford to lose just four Republicans, with 26 voting against him behind closed doors. And despite  phone calls with Trump over the weekend, the former president has continued  to post negative messages about Emmer on his 

 Truth Social platform in recent days.

 Several Republicans who opposed Emmer told CNN on Tuesday that they would not change their position and called for a new candidate. 

 Emmer  recently faced criticism from the right at the Republican National Convention for, among other things, voting for  bipartisan legislation to prevent defaults and  codify same-sex marriage. 

 Perhaps most importantly, he voted to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, an apparent repudiation of Trump's oft-repeated lie that the results were illegitimate. 

 But Emmer always supported the former president. In interviews and public comments reviewed by CNN's KFile before the presidential election, Emmer also refused to say that Joe Biden won the election and criticized the press for calling the race after the 2020 election.

The Minnesota congressman was first elected to Congress in 2014 and became majority leader earlier this year. Emmer, who lost Minnesota's 2010 gubernatorial election, was a state representative from 2004 to 2008. He is a member of the House Financial Services Committee and  former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. 

 As majority leader, Emmer is used to controlling the  Republican Party's slim majorities. Representative. Republican.Patrick McHenry, now acting House Speaker, told CNN in January that Emmer helped facilitate negotiations between  20 hardliners and the president's office, which ultimately gave the gavel to McCarthy after 15 votes. 

 McCarthy supported the Minnesota Republican's nomination for president and urged the conference to elect him by the end of the week. 

 “Now is not the time to acquire knowledge as a  speaker. "Tom could come in and do the job from day one," he said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."