Highlights: After Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) fell short of the votes he needed on the House floor a third time, House Republicans voted to ditch Jordan as their party’s speaker nominee. Jordan lost the closed-door secret ballot vote 112 to 86.
The tremendously difficult challenge is that just one GOP candidate somehow needs to unite nearly all members of both camps, even though they have seemingly irreconcilable demands.
With such long-established, high-profile Republicans falling flat, several much less well-known members of Congress will now try their luck. Reps. Kevin Hern (R-OK), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Austin Scott (R-GA), Byron Donalds (R-FL), and Mike Johnson (R-LA) declared their candidacies Friday afternoon after the GOP voted to drop Jordan.
The GOP’s new speaker candidates have little national profile. But perhaps it will take someone who is less firmly associated with either the existing leadership or the hardline-right faction to unite the GOP — someone who can make nice-sounding promises to both sides.
I’d love to see the utter chaos when the republicans try to order pizza. You know it’s gotta get ugly. You’d have Kevin McCarthy saying “let’s order pepperoni and extra cheese” then Matt Gaetz is like “I swear to god if I don’t get some Italian sausage I’m gonna call my daddy and tell him I don’t feel good so he’ll pick me up early.” Then Jim Jordan tries to step in and suggest mushrooms, onions, and bell peppers and the party absolutely loses their shit. Meanwhile Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps screaming about getting toothpaste instead of tomato sauce and Lauren Boebert calls her an idiot for wanting the wrong kind of toothpaste.
worst night at pizza hut ever I only wanted a Bigfoot.
This absolutely needs to be a SNL skit.