Jim Jordan's Bid For Speakership Ends After Historic Failed Third Vote
Jim Jordan was booted from the House speakership race after his Republican colleagues voted against his continued bid for the seat in a secret ballot after his third failed attempt to win the gavel on Friday.
Support for Jordan's candidacy faded over the course of the week as he lost by an increasingly larger margin in every vote. He received 194 votes in a third round of balloting on Friday, down from the 200 votes he received on Tuesday and well short of the 217 he needed to win the speaker's gavel.
Jordan’s 194 votes were the fewest for a Majority Nominee since the House expanded to 435 seats.
Following this historic loss by Jordan, Republicans then voted 112-86 to revoke Jordan's nomination in a closed-door meeting.
"It was an honor to be their speaker designee," Jordan told reporters after the meeting. "We need to come together to figure out who our speaker is going to be. I’m going to work as hard as I can to help that individual."
Republicans are back to square one when it comes to finding a new speaker.
The House will have no further votes Friday or this weekend. Republicans plan to hold a candidate forum on Monday at 6:30 p.m. and a secret ballot vote on Tuesday morning with the hopes of bringing a candidate to the House floor on Tuesday afternoon.
Unlike House Republicans, House Democrats have stayed united behind their leader Hakeem Jeffries who received all present Democratic, which was sixteen votes more than Jordan.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has proposed traditional Republicans could break with the extremists within the House Republican Conference and partner with Democrats on a bipartisan path forward to end the chaos in the House if Republicans continue to prove unable to elect a Speaker.
After another failed attempt to elect a new Speaker by the GOP, Speaker Hakeem Jeffries sounds really good to us.
