https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jordan-speaker-house-republicans-rcna120244 WASHINGTON — For the second time this week, fractured Republicans have picked their nominee for speaker of the House.
Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, defeated Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., in Friday’s closed-door, secret-ballot speaker contest. The vote was 124-81.
The Republicans took a second secret-ballot vote, rather than a recorded roll call, on whether lawmakers would support Jordan on the floor. In that vote, 152 members said yes and 55 said no, with one Republican voting "present," according to GOP lawmakers.
That tally does not bode well for Jordan since he'll need at least 217 votes to secure the speaker's gavel on the House floor.
Some of Jordan's allies were surprised by the number of GOP dissenters who said they were unwilling to back him when the official vote takes place on the floor.
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One Jordan supporter said that 180 members in support "would have been a number that everybody would have been a little more comfortable with."
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"We've got two days to lobby and make phone calls to understand why people aren't there yet, and hopefully get them there by Monday," said Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., a Jordan backer who represents a swing district. "You start applying the pressure of public opinion and good intimate conversations and hopefully that" helps Jordan, he added.
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They include Reps. Ann Wagner of Missouri, Don Bacon of Nebraska, and Mike Rogers of Alabama. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., a powerful appropriator, called Jordan "straightforward" but expressed concerns about his ability to lead a very narrow majority, pointing to the fact that he could not flip votes in favor of Scalise after Jordan endorsed his one-time opponent.
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Look at what we’re dealing with. The world is on fire and we have an entire branch of government not functioning right now,” Fitzpatrick said. “It’s unacceptable.”
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I mean he is great at running cover ups for pedos and being a point man for coups.
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Jim is obviously the best choice after Trump but I liked the idea of Scalise so Jim could continue being chair on the weaponization gov committee, because my god, did he destroy and embarrass demoshits on a daily basis every hearing. I wonder if that'll be impacted at all. Trump not being speaker is such a missed opportunity for nuclear level seething. But whatever, McCarthy being out is best for this country and that's all that matters.
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>>1225810 This is a bot post.
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>>1225810 How did you get like this?
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>>1225810 Republicans sure love elevating pedophile enablers
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>>1225796 >and a handful of Republicans have already said they won’t vote for Jordan. How many is a handful?
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>>1225810 Actually brainwashed.
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they will be begging McQarthy to return to the post. Gaetz and his idiotic cohorts are out.
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>>1225884 still not drag queens tho. Preachers, school teachers, Republicans ... but not drag queens.
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>>1225919 George Santos is still in congress.
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>>1225794 It's pretty dystopian to think about Jim Jordan as speaker. He's incompetent (as evidenced by his performance as chaor of the House Judiciary Committee) and corrupt / hypocritical (as evidenced by his refusal to respond to his subpoenas regarding his complicity re: Jan. 6).
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>>1225921 And you're outraged.
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>>1226058 >And America is outraged *ftfy
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>>1226083 No, pretty much just you and probably because he won in a purple district.
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>>1226088 Show me the groundswell of support for Santos from somewhere else besides your ass.
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>>1226094 I never said there was support. I'm alluding to the fact that no one really cares. Which is true.
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>>1225794 Jordan would be a bad Speaker
After all, He didn't Speak out when those teen wrestlers were being molested/
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>Ahead of Tuesday’s vote on potentially electing Jordan as the next speaker, Ohio Democratic Rep. Greg Landsman said many centrists in the GOP conference have personally told him they oppose Jordan as their next leader. >“Most moderate Republicans I talk with don’t want Jordan,” Landsman said in a statement. “They’ve said it to me, and they voted that way last week behind closed doors.” >That fact that the Ohio Republican is even within striking distance of becoming speaker, said Landsman, is because he’s leveraged his ties to powerful people in conservative media to essentially bully people into voting for him. >“Trump, [Sean] Hannity, and Fox News have told Republican moderates that this is what they want, never mind what the American people want or what the country and the world needs,” he said. "The majority of the House wants a bipartisan Speaker. Yet, House Republicans are on the verge of voting for Trump’s January 6th partner in crime."
