Table Of Content
- Letters to the Editor: Republicans, Trump is about to turn on you. Your ‘come to Jesus’ moment is now
- Jordan hopes to be speaker by the end of the day
- Calmes: That scowl. The gag order. Frightened jurors. Who’s on trial, a former president or a mob boss?
- Ohio State University accusations
- Letters to the Editor: My home insurance policy isn’t being renewed. Desperate Californians need help
- From New York to Arizona: Inside the head-spinning week of Trump’s legal drama
"I respectfully request the House of Representatives return immediately and begin a second vote on electing a new speaker," Diaz-Balart wrote. The Florida Republican said the "House needs to be open," and suggested that if a speaker can't be chosen in a day or two, the House should give expanded power in the interim to Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry of North Carolina. He said he was "disturbed at the tactics used by Jordan's supporters," telling Killion that right-wing influencers were telling "total lies," like spreading the idea that Gimenez would support Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries for speaker. Come 2024, remember the names and misplaced loyalties of those California lawmakers who voted to install an insurrection-backing, integrity-lacking Trump toady as head of the body that calls itself the People’s House.
Letters to the Editor: Republicans, Trump is about to turn on you. Your ‘come to Jesus’ moment is now
GOP Rep. Kevin McCarthy's supporters and detractors remain at an impasse as the second ballot wraps up. A third round of voting is underway after McCarthy was nominated by Rep. Steve Scalise. During the third round of voting, Rep. Byron Donalds switched his vote from McCarthy to Rep. Jim Jordan. This is key because Buck has been talking to the hard-liners but he doesn’t see them to be moving. Jordan’s nomination by another member marks a new layer of leadership drama as Republicans take control of the House.
Jordan hopes to be speaker by the end of the day
GOP Rep. Bob Good told Raju that some voters are “dead set” in their opposition to McCarthy, and plan on voting for Jordan again in the third ballot. CNN Capitol Hill reporter Melanie Zanona says to watch if any of the 19 lawmakers who voted against McCarthy in the second ballot will change their votes the third time around. Jordan, in an effort to show party unity, nominated GOP leader Kevin McCarthy in the second round of voting.
Calmes: That scowl. The gag order. Frightened jurors. Who’s on trial, a former president or a mob boss?
Several of the members who are opposed to Jordan are members of the House appropriations committee, who are reportedly opposed to the way Jordan has embraced a hard line on spending cuts and shutting down the government. Jordan, a far-right Ohio Republican who co-founded the House Freedom Caucus, earned the nomination to be the conference’s next speaker on 13 October. He won the nomination with 124 of the House Republican conference’s 221 votes. In order to become speaker he needed to get 217 votes from all house members. There are currently 221 Republicans and 212 Democrats in the US House (there are two vacancies), giving the GOP a very slim majority. Their chances to stay in office will heavily depend on their messaging, said Whit Ayers, a longtime GOP pollster.
Jim Jordan loses second vote for House speaker amid steep GOP opposition - CNN
Jim Jordan loses second vote for House speaker amid steep GOP opposition.
Posted: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]
“Anyone who endorses Jordan and any member who votes for him is affirmatively voting for a coup plotter, an election denier and a foe of American democracy,” the ad said. Jordan quickly emerged as the favorite among conservatives for the GOP's nomination for speaker, and the conference convened Friday morning to select a new candidate. The Ohio Republican faced a late challenge from Georgia Rep. Austin Scott, though ultimately won the backing of a majority of the 221-member conference.
Jordan ran to become speaker of the House in 2013 and 2015, getting two votes and one vote, respectively. He also lost to McCarthy in 2019 for the role of House minority leader by a vote of 159–43. In 2018 a sexual abuse scandal involving OSU’s athletics program led to allegations that Jordan knew of the abuse and did nothing to stop it.
Some of the California Republicans have been quiet on their voting plans. Opening statements, nominations and procedures could eat up an hour or so — Jordan and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will be nominated, and then the voting begins. He appears to be just short but plans to barrel ahead with an afternoon vote to twist the arms of remaining holdouts with the public scrutiny of a roll call vote.
Letters to the Editor: My home insurance policy isn’t being renewed. Desperate Californians need help
And there has been all sorts of faux urgency about the need to elect a speaker so the House, leaderless since McCarthy’s defenestration, can get back to business. Jordan-the-bomb-thrower might ultimately win the speakership of the House. But setting aside those glaring defects, what is singularly, unequivocally disqualifying is Jordan’s attempts, at Trump’s beckoning, to subvert an election that even Trump officials called the most secure in American history. All the talk of voter fraud, ballot-stuffing and other alleged subterfuge — which Jordan has widely promoted — is pure bunk. Jordan lost the first round of voting on Tuesday and fell well short again Wednesday, thus sparing the nation, in this time of war abroad and strife at home, the calamity that could ensue if the gavel falls into his weaselly grasp.
From New York to Arizona: Inside the head-spinning week of Trump’s legal drama
The now-defunct House Jan. 6 committee said in its final report that Jordan was among several lawmakers who had "materially relevant communications with Donald Trump or others in the White House" who also failed to comply with the panel's subpoenas. An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the political party of a group of representatives who notably voted “no” on new aid for Israel. Democrats have all voted for their leader, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, in each of the speakership elections.
For several years, the group largely pushed a campaign to repeal or defund Obamacare, and while Trump was president, its members advocated his positions and policy proposals in Congress. Democrats say that if Republicans choose Jordan as speaker, they plan to tie endangered GOP House members to him — and all his hard-line views. Jordan, 59, threw his name into the ring after the House ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as speaker this month. Since House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., failed to garner sufficient backing, Jordan has been the remaining contender for speaker. After high school, Jordan attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was twice a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I wrestling champion. He competed in the 1988 Olympic wrestling trials but failed to make the U.S. team.
A number of the group's members, for example, issued threats in 2015 to oust John Boehner as speaker of the House, especially because of his bipartisan deals to fund the government and prevent shutdowns. Ultimately, Boehner voluntarily resigned from the post and from Congress that September after months of pressure and opposition from far-right lawmakers. Jordan has been a polarizing figure on Capitol Hill over the last several years, and he has come under scrutiny for his previous job as a wrestling coach.
4 New York Republicans vote against Jim Jordan for speaker - Spectrum News
4 New York Republicans vote against Jim Jordan for speaker.
Posted: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]
It's a tough tactic, but Jordan surrogates say it's effective and necessary. "The House needs a speaker as soon as possible. Expect another round of votes today. It's time for Republicans to come together," Dye said. Several Republicans backed the request, including Texas Rep. Kay Granger and Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack.
Rep. Ken Buck, who voted for Rep. Tom Emmer, someone Buck admitted he doesn't like, told CNN that Jordan will "lose some votes" on a second round and "gain some votes." Appearing on CNN as the House recessed, Republican Rep. Carlos Giménez said he knows some Republicans agreed to vote for Jordan on the first round, but will likely peel away after that. Giménez is supporting McCarthy, but floated the idea that the Republican Party could nominate its first female member for speaker.
He also reported from the White House and Capitol Hill during the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations. Jordan earlier today urged voters to “rally around” McCarthy, but Raju said conservatives are “essentially ignoring it” and Good told CNN he expects votes for Jordan to grow. Republicans have told CNN’s Manu Raju that they plan on standing down on their vote for Rep. Jim Jordan, who was nominated during the second ballot.
Without a majority, the speaker contest is then forced into a second round of voting. "No person having received a majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected," McHenry said with a bang of the gavel. Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry, who is temporarily leading the House, declared the chamber in recess after Jordan failed to receive the requisite number of votes to be elected speaker. Apart from Calvert, Steel and others mentioned above, the California GOP lawmakers who supported Jordan on both ballots included Reps. Darrell Issa, Kevin Kiley, Young Kim, Tom McClintock, Jay Obernolte and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Doug LaMalfa, who voted for McCarthy on Tuesday in protest of his removal two weeks ago, backed Jordan on the second ballot. On Wednesday, California’s 12 GOP House members put tribal loyalty above the country’s best interests and heedlessly cast their votes to make Jim Jordan — election denier, Jan. 6 instigator, political pyromaniac — the next House speaker.
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