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- Lawmakers raise ‘concerns about deteriorating Israeli-Turkish relations,’ aid flotilla
- Jordan says next speaker vote will be at 11 a.m. ET tomorrow
- GOP congressman explains his vote against Jordan
- GOP Rep. Jim Jordan says it's 'wrong' for Senate Republicans to work with Democrats on bills endorsed by Biden
- Election
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.
Lawmakers raise ‘concerns about deteriorating Israeli-Turkish relations,’ aid flotilla
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.
Jordan says next speaker vote will be at 11 a.m. ET tomorrow
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."
GOP congressman explains his vote against Jordan
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?
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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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.
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.
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Another member who was originally opposed to Jordan but flipped and supported him on the floor, Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL), said he was “evaluating” everything right now and would not commit to supporting Jordan again. Jordan also faces the likelihood that some members who voted for him on the floor on the first ballot will not support him on the second. Now, the likelihood of Scalise helping Jordan win over the majority leader’s allies on the House floor is slim. The characterization of the meeting was also not taken well among Scalise allies, even the ones who had voted for Jordan on the floor.
Jim Jordan loses second vote for House speaker…
After the vote, the House recessed as Republicans figure out the next step. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, a chief architect of McCarthy’s ouster, said after Friday’s vote that he and other Jordan supporters would be willing to be censured or otherwise punished by their GOP colleagues if that was what it took to win over votes for Jordan. Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio has so far failed to clinch the House speakership in two rounds of voting. If Jordan does win them over, that would still not be nearly enough to secure the speakership, given that 22 Republicans voted against him on the second ballot and more are expected to oppose him on the third ballot. But Jordan is hoping to show some sign of progress ahead of the next vote planned for Friday.
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.
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.
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