Rep. Jim Jordan loses first round of balloting on speaker vote
Jordan has come up short in the first round of voting for House speaker.
(ABC 6 News) – Jordan has come up short in the first round of voting for House speaker.
The Ohio congressman did even worse than Kevin McCarthy did on the first balloting of his election back in January.
Jordan lost 20 Republican votes, well more than the three he could spare to win the speaker’s gavel.
More rounds of voting are expected as Jordan works to shore up support to replace McCarthy for the job and the leader of the GOP’s hard-right flank moves to take a central seat of U.S. power. But it’s unclear when the next vote will take place.
The Jordan holdouts are a mix of pragmatists, ranging from seasoned legislators and committee chairs worried about governing to newer lawmakers from districts where their voters back home prefer President Joe Biden to former President Donald Trump.
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