Conrad Hoyt is the overnight news editor at the Washington Examiner.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted Rep. Jim Jordan will be elected new House speaker on Tuesday because"this is not a time for the House Republican Party to look childish and in disarray."
"Jordan is a very serious, very competent person. ... My guess is either on the first or the second ballot tomorrow, he will be the speaker. He has a good chance of making the first ballot. I think he almost certainly will make it on the second ballot," Gingrich added. The former House speaker believes that the representatives who were frustrated with Rep. Matt Gaetz and the seven other House Republicans who voted with Democrats to oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy will"pivot" and vote for Jordan in fear that if they didn't, they would be responsible for a similar drama they accused Gaetz and the others of causing.
The former House speaker also believes McCarthy made the right decision by working across the aisle to keep the government funded at the end of September, even if it cost him the speakership.
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