Jordan vows to stay in speaker race as tensions erupt inside GOP meeting

[Olde Hornet]

MSN

Tensions are boiling over among House Republicans on Thursday afternoon as the conference searches for a viable path forward with Rep. Jim Jordan so far vowing to stay in the race to be the next speaker despite substantial resistance.

Jordan affirmed Thursday that he is still running for the speaker’s gavel and said he plans to talk to House Republicans who have opposed his candidacy in two floor votes. The Ohio Republican faces an uphill battle to win over holdouts, however, and is under growing pressure from within the GOP conference to drop out.

A closed-door GOP conference meeting on Thursday turned heated, multiple sources told CNN, with some members railing against Jordan, and one swearing at Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who led the rebellion against former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, whose ouster has led to the more than two week leadership vacuum.

There was also debate during the meeting over whether Republicans should support a resolution to temporarily expand the powers of interim Speaker Rep. Patrick McHenry – a controversial move that would put the House even further into uncharted territory following McCarthy’s historic ouster.

House Republicans later emerged from the three-hour meeting that went on with a new plan: Scrap the resolution to empower McHenry and instead go forward with more floor votes for Jordan. Members left the room saying that Jordan said it was his intention to hold another floor vote on Thursday instead of moving forward with a resolution to empower McHenry.

 

[TSU/BAMA]

And just think, some of those mofos have the nerve to blame their mess on the Democrats.

 

[Olde Hornet]

Jordan is done!

They are starting the process all over!

The line from all republican is that this is the democrats fault.

 

[bernard]

Rep. Jim Jordan, a man who has never passed any bills that were signed into law, refused to appear for a congressional subpoena, was a major architect in the Jan. 6th insurrection and is under investigation for ignoring assaults against his students, was under consideration for Speaker of the House, puzzles me.

The House Republicans are not even attempting to elect a speaker, it's just a clown show to avoid addressing Biden's foreign aid package for Ukraine and Israel, there is no sense of urgency at all on the Republicans' part.

 

[Olde Hornet]

Trump Allies Are Already Working Against The New Front-Runner For House Speaker​

MSN

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) is the natural front-runner to be the next man up in the GOP’s three-week-long search for a new speaker, except for one glaring problem: former President Donald Trump.

Trump allies in the media started blitzing Emmer with attacks Friday, hoping to derail his House speakership bid before it can truly begin, all while boasting that the ex-president agrees with them. “Tom Emmer is Nancy Pelosi in a Suit,” one far-right news outlet declared, referring to the former Democratic speaker.

After the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from the House’s top job and the subsequent failures of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) to unite the bickering GOP conference, Emmer is the only Republican left who has previously won an internal party contest — giving him an obvious advantage over the mostly little-known representatives tossing their hats in the ring ahead of a new internal party vote scheduled for Tuesday. He also has the backing of McCarthy.

With the margin of error in the speakership fight so small — Emmer or another candidate can only lose five GOP votes on the floor — those advantages may prove moot in the face of Trump’s opposition.