Republicans are trying to rally around a new House speaker after Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s ouster
For Republicans, it's a question with no clear answer: Who becomes House speaker after Kevin McCarthy? It’s not at all certain that any of the GOP candidates will be able to round up enough votes — 218, if all lawmakers are present and voting — to ascend to one of the most powerful positions in government, second in line to the presidency.
Jim Jordan of OhioJordan, a founder of the House Freedom Caucus, is likely to be the favored choice of the hard-line conservatives now driving the Republican Conference. The Judiciary Committee's leader has played a key role in Republicans’ impeachment inquiry of ident Joe Biden. The Ohio Republican, first elected in 2007, had tried to help McCarthy’s ultimately doomed effort to hold Republicans together. Jordan was a key McCarthy ally since Republicans regained the majority.
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