Ohio congressman gets support from 200 fellow Republicans in first round of voting
Rep. Jim Jordan hit resistance on Tuesday in his effort to become the next speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, as the Ohio congressman failed to score the support of enough fellow Republicans in an initial round of voting.
An ally of former President Donald Trump who secured his party’s nomination for the role on Friday, Jordan needs to have 217 votes in his favor, so he can only afford to have four fellow Republicans vote against him as no Democrats are expected to support him. One possible key is whether support for Jordan declines or not in a second round of voting, according to Matt Glassman, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Government Affairs Institute. Jordan, a co-founder of the hardline House Freedom Caucus and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, can afford to lose in the first ballot, but he can’t afford having the number of holdouts grow in later ballots, Glassman wrote in a post on X before Tuesday’s voting began.
“Whether it’s Judiciary chair, conservative leader or representative for his constituents in west central Ohio, whether on the wrestling mat or in the committee room, Jim Jordan is strategic, scrappy, tough and principled,” she said.
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