Jordan needs 217 Republican votes to be elected speaker on the floor over Democratic opposition, meaning that he can afford to lose no more than four party votes
Hardline Republican Jim Jordan is set to take his sputtering bid for speaker to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, hoping to bulldoze opposition from dozens within his own party by applying pressure in a series of public votes.
House Republicans are expected to meet behind closed doors on Monday and plan a floor vote for speaker at noon EST on Tuesday.second speaker-designateBut with moderate Republicans already in talks with Democrats about a bipartisan alternative, the coming week could hold some surprises, particularly for hardline conservatives who have blocked progress on 2024 spending and ultimately ejected McCarthy from the top job.
“I would prefer there to be a Republican solution,” Representative Mike Turner, who backs Jordan, told CBS’ “Face the Nation.” Others worry that the speaker’s contest shows House Republicans to be at the mercy of an insidious strain of dysfunction. Up to now, Jordan, his supporters and other Republicans have pushed to keep the fight for the speakership behind closed doors to avoid a recurrence of the public spectacle in January, when hardliners forced McCarthy to weather 15 grueling floor votes before being elected.
It is not clear how resolved establishment and centrist Republicans who oppose Jordan will prove to be in public.The co-founder of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus – whose hardball tactics made him the bane of successive speakers – also faces a lack of trust among centrist Republicans who remember him as one of the chamber’s “legislative terrorists,” despite his recent alignment with McCarthy.
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