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Jordan Out As Speaker Candidate After 3rd Loss

Update (1402ET): House GOP members have voted by secret ballot to remove Jim Jordan as candidate for speaker, according to Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman, who added that House Republicans are headed home for the weekend and will hold a candidate forum Monday night. Margin was large, sources tell me. — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 20, 2023 According to Politico‘s […]

House Republicans look for reset after Jordan loses Speaker fight: recap

House Republicans are looking for a reset after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) once again fell short of the Speakership Friday, continuing the two-week-long stalemate that has plunged the chamber into chaos. Following Jordan’s third failed attempt at the gavel, the GOP conference voted to no longer back the Ohio Republican for Speaker in a secret… […]

What to know about potential Speaker hopeful Tom Emmer

After Republicans voted Friday to no longer back House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as its Speaker nominee, the House is scrambling to find a new candidate. That decision came after Jordan failed for a third time to garner the 217 votes needed to secure the gavel. Several GOP members have since announced that they… […]

Biden: Jordan ‘got his rear end kicked’ in Speaker bid

President Biden on Friday took a swipe at House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), after the congressman failed to secure the speakership following three separate votes. “He just got his rear end kicked,” Biden said at a fundraiser in Washington, D.C. The president recounted to supporters how Jordan failed to bring in the majority of… […]

GOP lawmaker equates Speaker drama with ‘peeing on the electric fence’

Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) likened the ongoing drama between House Republicans trying to choose a Speaker to “peeing on the electric fence” during a Friday CNN interview. Womack joined CNN’s Jake Tapper where he was asked why amid two major foreign policy crises and a pending government shutdown, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who had three… […]

Rep. Jim Jordan loses second speaker vote as more Republicans defect

(NaturalNews) Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the House Republican Conference’s nominee to be the next speaker of the House of Representatives, has once again failed to… Source

Jim Jordan to hold press conference amid Speaker vote chaos

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is holding a press conference Friday morning after two failed attempts to become the new Speaker of the House. “Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) will hold a press conference tomorrow morning, Friday, October 20, 2023, at 8:00 a.m. ET in the Rayburn Room of the U.S. Capitol,” a post by House Judiciary… […]

Why Insurrectionist and ‘Legislative Terrorist’ Jim Jordan Should Never Be Speaker of the House—and What His Rise Says about the MAGA Republican Party

Rep. Jim Jordan, founding chair of the far-right Freedom Caucus and a pardon-seeking supporter of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in power after losing the 2020 presidential election, is, as of Wednesday morning, just a few Republican votes from being elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. With MAGA leaders, religious-right activists, and right-wing media […]

Senate GOP warms to idea of Speaker Jordan 

Senate Republicans embarrassed by the prolonged stalemate in the House over electing a new Speaker are warming up to the idea of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) taking the job in hopes that he’ll be able to corral conservative House rebels.  Jordan has long been regarded in Washington as one of the most hard-line conservatives in… […]

14 More Republicans Publicly Back Jim Jordan as Speaker-Designate Hours Before Potential Vote

Fourteen more House Republicans publicly backed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as Speaker-designate hours before a potential vote for Speaker. Source

House Speaker vote slated for Tuesday, Democratic Rep. says

House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) said a vote to select a new Speaker of the House is expected Tuesday at noon, Reuters reported. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) secured the Republican nomination for the seat on Friday after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), who had won the Republican nomination for the role, dropped out of the… […]

Rep. Jim Jordan chosen as House Republican nominee for speaker

(NaturalNews) The House Republican caucus has chosen Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio as the GOP’s nominee for Speaker of the House following days of Republican… Source

Scalise Drops Out Of Speaker’s Race After Failing To Win Over GOP Holdouts

Scalise Drops Out Of Speaker’s Race After Failing To Win Over GOP Holdouts Update (2005ET): Despite winning his party’s nomination by a margin of 113-99, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) has dropped out of the Speaker race, after a group of GOP holdouts refused to vote for him. Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks to reporters […]

Scalise withdraws from Speaker race: Live coverage

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (La.) has withdrawn from the race for Speaker, just a day after narrowly winning the nomination in a secret ballot. Almost immediately it became apparent that he would struggle to get the 217 votes needed on the House floor. Scalise secured the party’s nomination Wednesday for Speaker, defeating House Judiciary… […]

Steve Scalise drops out of Speaker’s race

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) on Thursday dropped out of the race for Speaker, just one day after he won the Republican nomination for the role. Scalise narrowly prevailed in a secret ballot internal GOP election on Wednesday, but it was clear almost immediately that he would struggle to get the 217 votes needed… […]

REPORT: Steve Scalise Expected to Drop out of the Race for Speaker of the House (VIDEO)

REPORT: Steve Scalise Expected to Drop out of the Race for Speaker of the House (VIDEO) Source

Speaker race has no clear favorite as GOP tensions rise 

The race for the Speakership is wide open as House Republicans head into a high-stakes stretch this week. The House GOP conference on Tuesday is set to hear from its two declared candidates for Speaker: Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — neither of whom have emerged as a… […]

House Speaker chaos threatens GOP majority

The political chaos surrounding the vacant Speakership in the House threatens to upend Republican efforts to hold onto their slim majority in next year’s elections. Questions over who would succeed former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) took on a new urgency this weekend amid an escalating war between Israel and Hamas terrorists. The air of… […]

WHOA: Kevin McCarthy Refuses to Rule Out Serving Again as Speaker During Interview

WHOA: Kevin McCarthy Refuses to Rule Out Serving Again as Speaker During Interview Source

Trump endorses Jim Jordan as next House speaker

Donald Trump early Friday announced his endorsement of Rep. Jim Jordan to be the next speaker of the House. “He will be a GREAT Speaker of the House, & has my Complete and Total Endorsement!” the former president wrote in a post to his social media site, Truth Social, that praised Jordan’s political record as […]

Oct 5- Trump Next House Speaker?

Trump made this Masonic hand sign but Satanist media never mentioned it Please send links and comments to [email protected] Donald Trump is being prepped as America’s savior. Never mind that he never missed an opportunity to signal his support for Freemasonry and Lucifer. The Demonrats and the media invented dozens of false charges against him […]

Jim Jordan announces run for Speaker

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is running for Speaker of the House, his spokesperson confirmed to The Hill. Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, could attract support from hardline conservatives: he was the first-ever chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Tuesday said Jordan would be his first choice… […]

Trump rules out Speaker run as GOP floats him as McCarthy replacement

Former President Trump on Wednesday appeared to rule out serving as Speaker after some House Republicans suggested him for the role, but he declined to back any particular candidate to replace Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after his ouster. “Lot of people have been calling me about Speaker, all I can say is we’ll do whatever is… […]

Hannity says Trump open to effort to ‘draft’ ex-president as Speaker

Fox News host Sean Hannity says former President Trump is open to the idea of being drafted by House Republicans to serve as the next Speaker of the House, although that scenario remains very unlikely. “Sources telling me at this hour some House Republicans have been in contact with and have started an effort to… […]

HOW COMFORTING! The former Super RINO Speaker is put out to pasture and the turncoat assures us he won’t smash up the House again.

READ HERE: McCarthy Won’t Seek Speaker Position In Re-Vote   Source

Acting Speaker Patrick McHenry Orders Pelosi to Vacate Her Capitol Hideaway Office

Acting Speaker, Rep. Patrick McHenry has evicted Nany Pelosi from her Capitol hideaway office. On Tuesday Pelosi was told to “Please vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed” Patrick McHenry of North Carolina […] The post Acting Speaker Patrick McHenry Orders Pelosi to Vacate Her Capitol Hideaway Office appeared first on The People's […]

5 Republicans who may run to replace ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy—and inherit leadership of a slim and unruly majority

READ HERE: https://fortune.com/2023/10/03/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-possible-replacements/   Source

McCarthy Won’t Seek Speaker Position In Re-Vote; Trump Nominated By Nehls

Update (1920T): Newly ousted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will not seek reelection to the post when the chamber convenes to select a new candidate. According to Just the News, “McCarthy was removing his name from consideration when the House convenes to select a new speaker.” Following McCarthy’s ouster, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) called the former Speaker a “feature […]

FNC’s Hannity Claims Effort Underway to ‘Draft’ Trump to Be Speaker

During Tuesday’s broadcast of FNC’s Hannity, host Sean Hannity claimed some House Republicans were making an effort “draft” former President Donald Trump as a potential McCarthy replacement.  Source

Kevin McCarthy: ‘I Will Not Run for Speaker Again’

Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will not seek to regain the Speaker’s gavel, he announced Tuesday night hours after losing a motion to vacate the chair. Source

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