Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is marching ahead with his Speakership bid despite increasingly grim signs for his path to the gavel, eyeing another floor vote on Thursday even as GOP lawmakers signal that his opposition is likely to grow.
“The expectation is, at least from the chatter I’m hearing, is that there will be some others that will move away from the Jordan candidacy,” Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.), who voted for Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) on the first two ballots, told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
“It’s very clear that those numbers are not there and that it’s gonna get a lot worse,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), who also backed Scalise in the first two rounds of voting, said after Jordan’s second failed vote, noting that he does not think he has a path to the gavel.
One centrist Republican who supported Jordan on the first two ballots said they are planning to jump ship.
“I committed to two votes. I’m not able to on the 3rd,” the lawmaker told The Hill in a text message.
Another Republican told The Hill that slowly increasing the number of votes against Jordan is a strategy among those opposing the Ohio Republican.
It’s genuinely hilarious that you don’t see the irony in criticizing them for being immature 12 year old children while simultaneously being unable to write a single sentence without using “fuck” and calling Biden a “stupid fuck”.
Truly, that is the mark of wise maturity.
Not to mention the whole premise of the post is silly. A president is supposed to be nonpartisan? Since when?
Also, they’re trying to say that junior high politics are somehow different than adult politics? The house is looking for a new speaker because a few people said that, “if you pass a bill with support from the other side, then you’re out of there.”
A Biden vote is definitely a “not Trumpty Dumpty” vote for me, but he’s done about what I expected. I don’t understand how people can hate him with the same passion as others can hate The Cheeto, though. I mean only one of those men is clearly evil and it’s not the really old white guy that should be retired; it’s the other really old white guy that should be retired (and in prison).