Reps. Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan and Kevin Hern are making their pitches for speaker to a fractured House GOP conference ahead of next week's vote.
The likely candidates for House speaker are crisscrossing their way across the GOP conference Friday to make their case for the top job. Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Republican Study Committee Chair Kevin Hern, R-Okla., are pitching themselves to lead the House of Representatives, which is run by a highly fractured House GOP majority.
Jordan spoke to the group Thursday in a meeting that two lawmakers said went fairly well despite some moderates’ reservations about his conservative credentials. He’s expected to tout those in a Friday afternoon session with the hard-line right House Freedom Caucus, multiple sources told Fox News Digital. Jordan previously chaired the group, and several of its members have already said they are voting for him.
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