The Home of Representatives has rejected Jim Jordan’s nomination for speaker two weeks after the chamber ousted Kevin McCarthy from the highest spot.
Jordan scrambled unsuccessfully to shore up the votes wanted to clinch the speakership within the carefully divided chamber. He may solely afford to lose just a few GOP votes to win the nod.
Jordan has come up quick within the first spherical of voting for Home speaker.
The Ohio congressman did even worse than Kevin McCarthy did on the primary balloting of his election again in January.
Jordan misplaced 20 Republican votes, nicely greater than the three he may spare to win the speaker’s gavel.
Extra rounds of voting are anticipated as Jordan works to shore up assist to interchange McCarthy for the job and the chief of the GOP’s hard-right flank strikes to take a central seat of U.S. energy. But it surely’s unclear when the subsequent vote will happen.
The Jordan holdouts are a mixture of pragmatists, starting from seasoned legislators and committee chairs apprehensive about governing to newer lawmakers from districts the place their voters again dwelling want President Joe Biden to former President Donald Trump.
Jordan attempting to sway holdouts
Jordan seems to be speaking to some Republicans about switching their vote after he seems to return up quick on the primary spherical.
Twenty Republicans have voted towards Jordan, an end result approach worse than his allies have been hoping for.
For his half, former Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy is smiling and joking with colleagues as he not bears the load of cajoling them to unite. He had earlier predicted that Jordan would clinch the gavel on the primary spherical.
The vote hasn’t but closed, and members can nonetheless change their ballots.Scalise’s vote for Jordan will get standing ovation
Republicans gave Rep. Steve Scalise a standing ovation after he forged his vote for Jordan for speaker.
Scalise was first nominated to the speakership final week earlier than withdrawing his title when it turned clear he would come up quick.
However Scalise’s assist was seemingly chilly consolation to Jordan, who’s getting ready to dropping the primary spherical until votes change earlier than the tip.
Fifteen Republicans have thus far voted towards Jordan. He may afford to lose not more than three votes and nonetheless win the speaker’s gavel.Jordan has misplaced a dozen Republican votes already
A dozen Republicans have now voted towards Jordan for Home speaker.
They’ve as an alternative backed Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Steve Scalise, former Rep. Lee Zeldin or others. All of the Democrats have voted for his or her chief, Hakeem Jeffries.
The voting continues.