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- Jordan appears to fall short on votes in third round of voting for speaker
- GOP Rep. Jim Jordan says it's 'wrong' for Senate Republicans to work with Democrats on bills endorsed by Biden
- House GOP considers Trump-backed Jim Jordan as speaker. Not all Republicans are in favor
- Five for Fighting brings the spirit of ‘Superman’ to Israel
However, the wave of consensus doesn't sit too well with Rep. Jim Jordan, the conservative Ohio Republican and longtime ally of former President Donald Trump who could play a major role in Congress next year if Republicans win back control of the House. First elected in 2006, Jordan has few bills to his name from his time in office. Some years ago, Jordan denied allegations from former wrestlers during his time as an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University who accused him of knowing about claims they were inappropriately groped by an Ohio doctor.
Jordan appears to fall short on votes in third round of voting for speaker
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said "we're in a very bad place" after Jim Jordan again failed to win the speakership during the third round of voting. There were 25 House Republicans who voted for someone other than Jordan – a higher number of GOP votes against him than in the first two failed votes in a sign that opposition to his bid is growing. Reps. Steve Scalise, Kevin McCarthy, Byron Donalds, Patrick McHenry, Mike Garcia, Bruce Westerman and Tom Emmer, as well as former Rep. Lee Zeldin all received votes. It took former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy multiple days of negotiations and 15 rounds of voting earlier this year to finally get elected — only to be ousted nine months later. No House speaker had ever before been ousted through the passage of a resolution to remove them. Rep. Nick LaLota, one of the 20 Republicans who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan's speakership Tuesday, told CNN that he is still not satisfied with Jordan's answers to his demands and predicted that he will lose more votes in the second round of voting on Wednesday.
GOP Rep. Jim Jordan says it's 'wrong' for Senate Republicans to work with Democrats on bills endorsed by Biden
“I just think the conference as a whole has to figure out their problems, solve it and select the leader,” he said. Scalise has been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer known as multiple myeloma and is being treated, but has also said he was definitely up for the speaker’s job. Jordan also received an important nod Friday from the Republican party’s campaign chairman, Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., who made an attempt to unify the fighting factions.
House GOP considers Trump-backed Jim Jordan as speaker. Not all Republicans are in favor
The political climb has been steep for Jordan, the combative Judiciary Committee chairman and a founding member of the right-flank Freedom Caucus. He is known more as a chaos agent than a skilled legislator, raising questions about how he would lead. Congress faces daunting challenges, risking a federal shutdown at home if it fails to fund the government and fielding Biden's requests for aid to help Ukraine and Israel in the wars abroad. “If he doesn’t have 217, the best I can do is maybe vote present..I’m okay to be 217, but if he has 210, I’m not going to be 211,” Spartz said. Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) said she’d only vote for Jordan Tuesday if her vote is the deciding one.
Jim Jordan still facing opposition on eve of House speakership vote
CPI has been coordinating calls and helping strategize with right-wing activists about ways to apply pressure on holdouts and whip up support for Jordan, sources say. And it's 4 percent, eight members here, crazy members led by Gaetz, that put us in a bad situation,” McCarthy said when asked if it's a problem for the GOP for Jordan to continue on without a path to the speakership. The House’s slim margin is what led to McCarthy’s removal at the hands of a band of eight GOP rebels – and now a similarly sized group of House Republicans could block Jordan’s ascension, too. "This is not a position merely to be a caretaker of the election of the next speaker," LaLota added. "The speaker pro tempore absolutely has every right, duty and responsibility and authority to act in the absence of a bona fide speaker."
The hold-outs argued that as majority leader, Scalise was no better choice, that he should be focusing on his health as he battles cancer and that he was not the leader they would support. The House closed late in the night, with lawmakers vowing to meet again early Friday. Jordan’s allies were hoping that Scalise supporters would help whip fellow Scalise allies who voted against Jordan. But Scalise’s allies feel like they did far more to rally around Jordan than Jordan did when Scalise initially won the nomination last week.
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) urged centrist Republicans to drop their support for Jordan and instead work with Democrats to advance a candidate that could win the support of both parties. He said that he expects the talks between centrist Republicans and Democrats to “accelerate” throughout the night on Tuesday. Jordan met with Scalise after the vote and tried to ask him to help with whipping his supporters, a source familiar said the Louisiana Republican declined. “212 is our call for a speaker who will secure liberty, justice and opportunity for everyone. Well, the unanimous call of 212 House Democrats has been answered by our nominee for speaker, the gentleman from Brooklyn, the leader of our House Democratic Caucus, the honorable Hakeem Jeffries,” Clark said. He lost 22 Republican votes on the second round of voting Wednesday and 20 on the first Tuesday.
Jordan wins over some GOP skeptics ahead of speaker vote - CNN
Jordan wins over some GOP skeptics ahead of speaker vote.
Posted: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]
Jordan fails to win House speakership in second vote
Kevin McCarthy — who was ousted as House speaker earlier this month — has been counseling Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan on strategy for his own speakership bid, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. GOP Rep. Mario Diaz Balart, who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker on Tuesday's first ballot, sent a letter to interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry demanding an immediate second vote on electing a new speaker. Jordan said the expected return of Florida Rep. Gus Bilirakis, a Jordan supporter who missed the first vote to be at his mother-in-law’s funeral, should help him and insisted they are chipping away at the holdouts. It’s not the first time that the speakership scramble has exposed fault lines in the upper ranks of House GOP leadership.
House GOP calls it a night as Jim Jordan faces staunch opposition for speaker
Overwhelmed and exhausted, anxious GOP lawmakers worry their House majority is being frittered away to countless rounds of infighting over rules, personalities and direction of the GOP. “That’s the plan,” Jordan said when asked if he would return to the floor for another vote later today. Jordan is currently shuffling between House Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s office and the speaker’s office holding meetings.
With Republicans in majority control, Jordan must pick up most of his GOP foes to win. Additional voting was postponed as the House hit a standstill, stuck while Jordan works to shore up support from Republican colleagues to replace the ousted Kevin McCarthy for the job. Reluctant Republicans are refusing to give Jordan their votes, viewing the Ohio congressman as too extreme for the powerful position of House speaker, second in line to the presidency. Jordan, 59, came out of the meeting confident that a vote on the full House floor will indeed take place Tuesday, and that he will be elected speaker of the House — despite at least six GOP lawmakers still opposed to his nomination and others undecided. Jordan told reporters he hasn’t heard any concerns from members over the tactics he is using to secure support for his speakership bid.
Republicans have also been frustrated by the foreign aid bill in general, objecting to humanitarian aid to Palestinians, a lack of border security policy, aid to Ukraine and Johnson’s work with Democrats to pass the legislation. On the other side of the aisle, Democratic caucus chairman Rep. Pete Aguilar of California nominated Jeffries and warned that handing the speaker’s gavel to a “vocal election denier” would be “a terrible message” at home and abroad. “Jim Jordan will be a great speaker,” the former president said outside the courthouse in Manhattan, where he is facing business fraud charges.
The House is gearing up for another showdown on the floor Friday with a third speaker vote expected, the latest sign that Jim Jordan is not backing down even though he lacks the 217 votes needed to secure the speakership. A closed-door meeting Thursday to regroup grew heated at times with Republican factions blaming one another for sending their majority into chaos, lawmakers said. Jordan could only afford to lose five votes from Republicans and still have the votes needed to win the speaker's gavel today. Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, again failed to win the speakership in a third round of voting. Jim Jordan again failed to win the speakership during the third round of voting. After the first vote, the House recessed and Jordan shuffled between the speaker’s office and the majority whip’s office holding meetings, before Jordan said the next vote would be on Wednesday.
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy compared Rep. Jim Jordan’s failed first round of voting to his own marathon run to secure the gavel back in January. Seven members voted for Scalise during the roll call but Scalise cast his ballot for Jordan. The vote has not yet been scheduled, but Jordan’s team has vowed to force another floor vote today.
Jordan faces grim prospects in speaker’s fight after whirlwind week for House GOP - CNN
Jordan faces grim prospects in speaker’s fight after whirlwind week for House GOP.
Posted: Sat, 14 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]
GOP Rep. Don Bacon’s wife has received anonymous text messages warning her husband to back GOP Rep. Jim Jordan as he continues to oppose to the conservative candidate. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) framed the vote as a question of standing up for democratic values. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) gives a brief statement to reporters about the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine after a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the U.S. Jordan is also going on a fishing expedition at energy company Orsted, an effort that resembles his probes into other corporate members of GARM over their alleged aversion to advertising on conservative-friendly platforms, such as Elon Musk-owned X. (The companies haven’t issued public statements about the matter.) So while these attacks aren't new, their frequency is part of the problem. It looks like we can add Coca-Cola (back) to the ever-changing carousel of quintessentially American companies targeted by Republicans for reprisals.
In a posts on X, Republican Rep. Erin Houchin criticized Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, who brought forward the motion to vacate the speaker’s seat while Rep. Larry Bucshon expressed thanks for McCarthy’s leadership. However, some Senate Republicans are leery of taking McCarthy's approach as it relates to passing legislation, frustrated that he could be dismissing good bills and allowing Democrats to portray the party as intransigent. Jordan recently told Politico that Senate Republicans who join their Democratic counterparts in supporting legislation backed by Biden are "wrong." One, Scalise backer Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., began circulating an option to give Rep Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., the interim speaker pro-tempore, more authority to lead. Others softened their opposition after Tuesday’s first vote saying they they simply wanted to register their protest, but would be with Jordan on subsequent balloting. Upset that a small band of hard-liners have upended the House by ousting McCarthy, Republicans have watched their majority control of the chamber descend into public infighting.
Jordan has been a top Trump ally, particularly during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack by the former president's backers who were trying to overturn the 2020 election he lost to Biden. “Jim, at some point, if he’s going to lead this conference during the presidential election cycle and particularly in a presidential election year ... Is going to have to be strong and say Donald Trump didn’t win the election and we need to move forward,” Buck said.
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