House Republicans reject Rep Jim Jordan for speaker of the House, again Jefferson Public Radio

Table Of Content

• GOP member who voted against Jordan says he is "not satisfied" with his plan to keep the government open
• Second ballot
• Biden tries to downplay age with jokes, mocks Trump at White House Correspondents Dinner
• Angela Alsobrooks distances herself from Van Hollen on Israel policy
• Lady Gaga cancels sister’s bachelorette party at LES club The Box after pressure over sex harassment suit
• Jim Jordan fails to win House speakership on first ballot
• A breakdown of Jim Jordan's failed first ballot for the speakership

Kevin McCarthy — who was ousted as House speaker earlier this month — has been counseling Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan on strategy for his own speakership bid, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. GOP Rep. Mario Diaz Balart, who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker on Tuesday's first ballot, sent a letter to interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry demanding an immediate second vote on electing a new speaker. Jordan said the expected return of Florida Rep. Gus Bilirakis, a Jordan supporter who missed the first vote to be at his mother-in-law’s funeral, should help him and insisted they are chipping away at the holdouts. It’s not the first time that the speakership scramble has exposed fault lines in the upper ranks of House GOP leadership.

GOP member who voted against Jordan says he is "not satisfied" with his plan to keep the government open

With Republicans in majority control, Jordan must pick up most of his GOP foes to win. Additional voting was postponed as the House hit a standstill, stuck while Jordan works to shore up support from Republican colleagues to replace the ousted Kevin McCarthy for the job. Reluctant Republicans are refusing to give Jordan their votes, viewing the Ohio congressman as too extreme for the powerful position of House speaker, second in line to the presidency. Jordan, 59, came out of the meeting confident that a vote on the full House floor will indeed take place Tuesday, and that he will be elected speaker of the House — despite at least six GOP lawmakers still opposed to his nomination and others undecided. Jordan told reporters he hasn’t heard any concerns from members over the tactics he is using to secure support for his speakership bid.

Second ballot

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The level of GOP opposition to Jordan during Tuesday’s speaker’s vote – held exactly two weeks after the House ousted Kevin McCarthy – was a disappointment for Jordan’s allies who had expressed hopes that the number of holdouts would only be in the single digits. A Republican House member opposed to Rep. Jim Jordan told CNN that opposition to his speaker candidacy will grow, especially if it goes to a third round of balloting — with potentially 25 Republicans voting against him. McCarthy's January 15-vote-long bid was the longest speakership bid in more than 160 years, when it took 44 voting rounds in 1859 to elect a speaker. Jordan has met with a number of allies to try and sway key holdouts to vote for him and shrink his opposition. Though GOP sources say his opposition could grow if the votes continue over multiple rounds of ballots. Conservatives, particularly those affiliated with the Freedom Caucus, have for months expressed opposition to additional aid to Israel not tied to other government funding cuts.

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GOP Rep. Don Bacon’s wife has received anonymous text messages warning her husband to back GOP Rep. Jim Jordan as he continues to oppose to the conservative candidate. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) framed the vote as a question of standing up for democratic values. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) gives a brief statement to reporters about the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine after a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the U.S. Jordan is also going on a fishing expedition at energy company Orsted, an effort that resembles his probes into other corporate members of GARM over their alleged aversion to advertising on conservative-friendly platforms, such as Elon Musk-owned X. (The companies haven’t issued public statements about the matter.) So while these attacks aren't new, their frequency is part of the problem. It looks like we can add Coca-Cola (back) to the ever-changing carousel of quintessentially American companies targeted by Republicans for reprisals.

The House is gearing up for another showdown on the floor Friday with a third speaker vote expected, the latest sign that Jim Jordan is not backing down even though he lacks the 217 votes needed to secure the speakership. A closed-door meeting Thursday to regroup grew heated at times with Republican factions blaming one another for sending their majority into chaos, lawmakers said. Jordan could only afford to lose five votes from Republicans and still have the votes needed to win the speaker's gavel today. Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, again failed to win the speakership in a third round of voting. Jim Jordan again failed to win the speakership during the third round of voting. After the first vote, the House recessed and Jordan shuffled between the speaker’s office and the majority whip’s office holding meetings, before Jordan said the next vote would be on Wednesday.

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Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy compared Rep. Jim Jordan’s failed first round of voting to his own marathon run to secure the gavel back in January. Seven members voted for Scalise during the roll call but Scalise cast his ballot for Jordan. The vote has not yet been scheduled, but Jordan’s team has vowed to force another floor vote today.

Republicans have also been frustrated by the foreign aid bill in general, objecting to humanitarian aid to Palestinians, a lack of border security policy, aid to Ukraine and Johnson’s work with Democrats to pass the legislation. On the other side of the aisle, Democratic caucus chairman Rep. Pete Aguilar of California nominated Jeffries and warned that handing the speaker’s gavel to a “vocal election denier” would be “a terrible message” at home and abroad. “Jim Jordan will be a great speaker,” the former president said outside the courthouse in Manhattan, where he is facing business fraud charges.

A breakdown of Jim Jordan's failed first ballot for the speakership

But, Scalise rebuffed a request from Jordan to give a nominating speech on the floor on Tuesday. And after Jordan failed to secure the speakership on the first ballot, Scalise was noncommittal about helping Jordan further, a source added. (CNN) — Republican Rep. Jim Jordan again failed to win the House speaker’s gavel in a second vote on Wednesday, faring worse than he did during the first round of voting one day earlier. The loss raises serious questions over whether the Ohio Republican has a viable path forward as he confronts steep opposition and the House remains in a state of paralysis. "I got 90% of vote yesterday, got a huge cross section of our conference from the conservatives to people in the middle to more liberal members and so I think that's the best route," he told reporters shortly before Wednesday's vote. "But you know what? People are talking about this resolution. I told leadership call the question."

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said "we're in a very bad place" after Jim Jordan again failed to win the speakership during the third round of voting. There were 25 House Republicans who voted for someone other than Jordan – a higher number of GOP votes against him than in the first two failed votes in a sign that opposition to his bid is growing. Reps. Steve Scalise, Kevin McCarthy, Byron Donalds, Patrick McHenry, Mike Garcia, Bruce Westerman and Tom Emmer, as well as former Rep. Lee Zeldin all received votes. It took former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy multiple days of negotiations and 15 rounds of voting earlier this year to finally get elected — only to be ousted nine months later. No House speaker had ever before been ousted through the passage of a resolution to remove them. Rep. Nick LaLota, one of the 20 Republicans who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan's speakership Tuesday, told CNN that he is still not satisfied with Jordan's answers to his demands and predicted that he will lose more votes in the second round of voting on Wednesday.

The hold-outs argued that as majority leader, Scalise was no better choice, that he should be focusing on his health as he battles cancer and that he was not the leader they would support. The House closed late in the night, with lawmakers vowing to meet again early Friday. Jordan’s allies were hoping that Scalise supporters would help whip fellow Scalise allies who voted against Jordan. But Scalise’s allies feel like they did far more to rally around Jordan than Jordan did when Scalise initially won the nomination last week.

Jordan is now meeting with key chairmen and top Republicans in House Majority Whip Tom Emmer’s office as they try to lean on holdouts and make offers to win their support. And now, McCarthy has been counseling Jordan on his speaker’s race strategy, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation, a far more active role than he appeared to be playing when Scalise was the speaker nominee. It took former Speaker Kevin McCarthy 15 rounds of voting in January to secure the gavel.

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However, the wave of consensus doesn't sit too well with Rep. Jim Jordan, the conservative Ohio Republican and longtime ally of former President Donald Trump who could play a major role in Congress next year if Republicans win back control of the House. First elected in 2006, Jordan has few bills to his name from his time in office. Some years ago, Jordan denied allegations from former wrestlers during his time as an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University who accused him of knowing about claims they were inappropriately groped by an Ohio doctor.

To win over GOP colleagues, Jordan had relied on backing from Trump, the party’s front-runner in the 2024 election, and groups pressuring rank-and-file lawmakers for the vote. Next steps were highly uncertain as angry, frustrated Republicans predict the House could essentially stay closed for the foreseeable future — perhaps until the mid-November deadline for Congress to approve funding or risk a federal government shutdown. “He doesn’t have the votes to be speaker,” Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., said after a late Thursday meeting when Jordan sought to hear detractors out and shore up support. “I supported him like I said I would on the first one, and if there’s other candidates or other things going on, we’ll go from there,” said Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), a centrist who voted for Jordan but is now noncommittal to supporting him on a second ballot. “Scalise said he’d be open to it despite the fact Jordan would only commit to supporting Scalise for one ballot. But why would he now when Jordan is in the press lying about a meeting he had with Scalise and claiming Scalise won’t support him when Scalise from day one has said he’d vote for Jordan, did, and still will?

Jordan has been a top Trump ally, particularly during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack by the former president's backers who were trying to overturn the 2020 election he lost to Biden. “Jim, at some point, if he’s going to lead this conference during the presidential election cycle and particularly in a presidential election year ... Is going to have to be strong and say Donald Trump didn’t win the election and we need to move forward,” Buck said.