Rep. Jim Jordan gained significant momentum in his quest for the speaker's gavel but is still working to convince Republican holdouts to provide enough support to win in a floor vote Tuesday.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump, arrives as House Republicans meet behind closed doors to try to unite around him as their new nominee for speaker, at …Rep. Jim Jordan gained significant momentum in his quest for the speaker’s gavel but is still working to convince Republican holdouts to provide enough support to win in a floor vote Tuesday.
“My gut tells me we’re somewhere south of 10 who are still being recalcitrant,” Rep. Chip Roy, Texas Republican, said on a radio talk show hosted by Erik Erikson.As few as four Republicans can derail him and it may be hard to flip several GOP holdouts from Biden-leaning districts who do not back Mr. Jordan’s hard-charging, ultra-conservative politics.
One of them, Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, told reporters he couldn’t back Mr. Jordan, at least on the first round of voting, because it would reward the small band of arch-conservatives who ousted Mr. McCarthy over the opposition of 96% of the GOP conference. “If anybody’s trying to get my vote, the last thing you want to do is try to intimidate or pressure me, because then I close out entirely,” Mr. Diaz-Balart said.
Mr. Rogers is among a group of Republicans who fear Mr. Jordan, an ardent supporter of spending cuts, will block future funding for Ukraine to battle Russia or otherwise oppose robust defense spending. Mr. Jordan’s letter praised the conference for its diversity.“We don’t march in lockstep like our Democratic colleagues,” he wrote.Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana was nominated for the job last week but dropped out a day later, blocked by hardline conservatives from winning the support of 217 Republicans needed to survive in a vote on the House floor.
The move would require only a small group of Republicans working with all or most Democrats and would result in an unprecedented abdication of majority control.
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