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There’s reportedly a new plan to put Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) back in the speaker’s office, this time with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) ― who flopped in his own bid for the gavel last week ― as his assistant. And an MSNBC panel couldn’t stop laughing at the idea Tuesday. McCarthy was unceremoniously dumped as […]
WASHINGTON — After failing to win the speaker’s gavel in a House floor vote for the third time, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Friday asked his GOP colleagues if he should keep trying. Voting by secret ballot in the Capitol basement, Republicans told Jordan no by a vote of 112 to 86. And that was […]
WASHINGTON ― Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) dropped his bid to become the 56th speaker of the House of Representatives on Friday following a vote by his Republican colleagues. Republicans voted against keeping Jordan as their speaker-designee by a margin of 86 to 112, Republicans told reporters. Jordan then accepted the result. Source link
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) saw the House of Representatives again reject his bid to become speaker on Friday ― this time by the biggest margin yet, after some of his fellow Republicans said they’d received threats after voting against him in earlier rounds. Jordan garnered only 194 votes from House Republicans, down from 200 in […]
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is not done yet. Ahead of another likely losing vote for his speaker bid on Friday, Jordan said he thinks his opponents within the House Republican conference can still be persuaded to come around to him. “Look, there’s been multiple rounds of votes for speaker before. We all know that. I […]
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) has detailed the extreme safety precaution his wife felt compelled to take after receiving anonymous, threatening text messages following Bacon’s refusal to back Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) bid for House speaker. “She had terrible phone calls,” Bacon told reporters on Thursday, per The Hill. “I didn’t sleep well last night. I […]
CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday aired a chilling voicemail that was received by the wife of a Republican lawmaker who opposed Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) faltering bid for the House speaker role. “This is pretty ugly stuff,” Tapper warned viewers before playing the audio that was sent to the GOP lawmaker, who he did not […]
CNN anchor Jake Tapper skewered Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Thursday with a droll reference to his days as an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University. Jordan has already tried and failed to get elected House speaker twice this week and considered bowing out on Thursday before vowing to push for a third vote. […]