The Ohio bomb-thrower is refusing to bow out after losing a second Speaker vote, exposing the majority party’s inability to govern.
After Jordan failed to hit the needed threshold in the second round of votes, his camp dug its heels in. “We’re going to keep going,” Russell Dye, Jordan’s spokesperson, said Wednesday. “We’ll continue to talk and listen to our colleagues,” Jordan said, indicating he’d push for a third round of votes, which could begin by noon Thursday. But even as Jordan insisted he wasn’t leaving the fight, his antagonists—and even some allies—were mapping out alternative paths to a semblance of governance.
” McHenry, for his part, isn’t entertaining the notion. “I want to elect Jim Jordan as Speaker and that is what we are going to the floor to do,” he told reporters ahead of the second round of votes. When pressed again whether he would support a resolution to expand his powers as Speaker pro tempore, McHenry was dismissive. “I am voting for Jim Jordan,” he said.
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