The House Judiciary Committee chair always faced an uphill fight for the speaker’s gavel, but his bungled effort left him with deep enemies inside the GOP caucus.
Rep. Jim Jordan walks back to his office after losing the second Speaker ballot vote on Wednesday. Rep. Jake Ellzey described his Monday meeting with Rep. Jim Jordan as “very cordial,” one that ended with the retired Navy fighter pilot explainingto Jordan’s candidacyBecause I would have said something to him, about him, in front of other people,” Ellzey told reporters Friday.
Jordan’s four years of trying to be a team player — joining the inner leadership circle of Rep. Kevin McCarthy and working with establishment conservatives — fell apart in a one-week span that brought out all those past elements of discord and chaos. “Jim Jordan deserved better than that,” Rep. Matt Gaetz , who helped launch this chaos by leading the Oct. 3 ouster of McCarthy as speaker, told reporters Friday.Now the question will be which path Jordan takes in the weeks, months and years ahead. He could try to rehabilitate his image with the Republicans who felt burned by his tactics, or he could revert to his original form and play the role of internal sabotage expert.
They had long-standing disputes with Jordan, whose willingness to consider cuts to the Pentagon’s budget and opposition to backing Ukraine ran askew of their traditional security hawk orthodoxy. Jordan skeptics had their antennae buzzing when Scalise defeated Jordan, 113-99, on the Oct. 11 vote to nominate a successor to McCarthy.After the vote was announced, Jordan gave a halfhearted statement about supporting whoever could get 217 votes. With no explicit endorsement of the winner, Scalise’s camp saw that as a “dog whistle” by Jordan to his friends in the House Freedom Caucus to take down Scalise.. On Oct.
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