Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich offered up his praise for Rep. Jim Jordan, saying that he thinks the Ohio Republican will be elected the next House speaker on Tuesday.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, speaks with reporters following a closed door meeting with House Republicans as he looks for decisive support to become speaker, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. A …“I think Jordan will be a very strong, very compelling speaker. I think he will represent the whole party. He gets it,” Mr.said to Sean Hannity on Fox News Monday night. “I think he will be very smart at getting things done.”said.
“I suspect almost every Republican now understands with the war going on in Israel, with the war going on in Ukraine, with the problems we have on the border, this is not a time for the House Republican Party to look childish and silly and in disarray,” Mr. He also said that he thinks Mr. McCarthy “did the right thing for the country” by working in a bipartisan way to keep the government open.. “I do think, frankly, having the government still open with the war going on in Israel vindicates McCarthy’s judgment. He did the right thing for the country even if it made eight people angry at him in the conference.”
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