Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is marching ahead with his Speakership bid despite increasingly grim signs for his path to the gavel, eyeing another floor vote on Thursday even as GOP lawmakers signal that his opposition is likely to grow.
“The expectation is, at least from the chatter I’m hearing, is that there will be some others that will move away from the Jordan candidacy,” Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), who voted for Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) on the first two ballots, told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
“It’s very clear that those numbers are not there and that it’s gonna get a lot worse,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), who also backed Scalise in the first two rounds of voting, said after Jordan’s second failed vote, noting that he does not think he has a path to the gavel.
One centrist Republican who supported Jordan on the first two ballots said they are planning to jump ship.
“I committed to two votes. I’m not able to on the 3rd,” the lawmaker told The Hill in a text message.
Another Republican told The Hill that slowly increasing the number of votes against Jordan is a strategy among those opposing the Ohio Republican.
One centrist Republican who supported Jordan
The Hill just making shit up
"One Republican, that's shy about being a fascist, who supported Jordan" is a mouthful and redundant though.
True, but at least it doesn't invoke a species that's been extinct since at least 2008 🤷
Ya, pretty sure Liz Cheney was voted out in the last election. And she would not have voted for Jordan.
Also, she's not even a moderate like the Dem leadership is pretending. She's a paleoconservative like her dad who only appears moderate in the company of fascists and lunatics, which is the vast majority of GOP politicians in Washington DC and most states now 😮💨
It's sad that "moderate" in this context means that someone can compromise, work cooperatively, and not resort to lying about other political views.
This is where parliamentary systems can sometimes force cooperation. The US setup kind of pushes towards two parties.
She's a paleoconservative like her dad
Funny. I remember when her dad and his ilk were called "neoconservatives."
Time moves fast in the political realm.
That was Dubya. He pretended to be a new and more compassionate kind of conservative. The Dick never even pretended.
Now he's gonna molest the democratic processes next I suppose
I guess he figures all the death threats from the MAGA chuds will work?
I'm looking forward to a worse showing than the first two. I'm hoping that when he hits 30 lost votes, he will pull his bottom lip over his head and swallow.
Poor Gym. A real bitch to wrestle with reality, innit.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is marching ahead with his Speakership bid despite increasingly grim signs for his path to the gavel, eyeing another floor vote on Thursday even as GOP lawmakers signal that his opposition is likely to grow.
The tally beat expectations from Jordan supporters, who had predicted he would lose around eight more Republicans, but it also marked the first time in nearly a century that a majority-party Speaker nominee received fewer than 200 votes.
Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) said Wednesday it is his “expectation” that the GOP conference will meet Thursday, which could present Jordan with an opportunity to regroup ahead of a third ballot.
Wednesday morning, before Jordan fell short on the second ballot, Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) signaled he would introduce a resolution to formally install McHenry as Speaker pro tempore.
Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) said Jordan’s second failed vote “absolutely” further shows that it is time to expand McHenry’s powers, and Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-N.Y.) called that course of action “the most logical solution at this point.”
The Speaker saga is thrusting the House GOP conference into a sea of complicated dynamics as pressure mounts amid a looming government shutdown deadline and a conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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“I ache for him,” President Biden told reporters while chuckling when asked if he has a view on Jordan’s “current predicament” on Capitol Hill. “No. Zero. None.”
Glad to see POTUS being nonpartisan and not acting like it's junior high school politics… not… Kinda has a little more impact than just the shitty optics. I don't really give much of a fuck that the republican party is looking like a little tiny car with a whole lotta clowns in it, but I damned sure give a shit that it's having some collateral effects, and POTUS damned sure ought to as well.
This stupid fuck had 8 years as Obama's second, watching him react to situations just like this by telling people to be mindful of the consequences of their actions, or sometimes, just outright telling people to grow the fuck up… Biden could 100% have responded to the media with "republicans need to grow the fuck up" in exactly those terms, and cashed in huge returns in public and even legislator opinions of him, but he doesn't even have the tiny bit of sense it takes to understand that.
I hate literally all of these fuckers… I hate that theyve all become 12 year old children in their level of maturity, I hate that the majority of politics is focused on making anyone else look really shitty so their own shittiness seems ok, and I really really fucking hate that everyone is so absolutely fucked right now that trump is an actual viable fucking option. The bar should have never ever gotten low enough for trump to have a shot at it, and an actual second shot at it is just fucking absurdity…
Literally everyone in politics right now needs to grow the fuck up a little.
It's genuinely hilarious that you don't see the irony in criticizing them for being immature 12 year old children while simultaneously being unable to write a single sentence without using "fuck" and calling Biden a "stupid fuck".
Truly, that is the mark of wise maturity.
Not to mention the whole premise of the post is silly. A president is supposed to be nonpartisan? Since when?
Also, they're trying to say that junior high politics are somehow different than adult politics? The house is looking for a new speaker because a few people said that, "if you pass a bill with support from the other side, then you're out of there."
A Biden vote is definitely a "not Trumpty Dumpty" vote for me, but he's done about what I expected. I don't understand how people can hate him with the same passion as others can hate The Cheeto, though. I mean only one of those men is clearly evil and it's not the really old white guy that should be retired; it's the other really old white guy that should be retired (and in prison).
That's the Fetterman approach - and good on him. Biden is built different and that's not a bad thing. Let Fetterman attack and the President reconcile.
I like fetterman :) Dems oughta put that dude on the next ticket if he's willing, he'd bring some much needed respectability and bipartisanship back to the POTUS position, and I'd put good money on him sweeping the swing states easily.
