Ohio congressman gets support from 200 fellow Republicans in initial ballot
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.
The tally was 200 votes for Jordan, while 232 lawmakers voted for other candidates. The House has 221 Republicans and 212 Democrats, with two vacancies. One GOP lawmaker was absent for the first ballot — Jordan supporter and Florida Congressman Gus Bilarakis, who was attending a funeral. 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.
All 212 Democrats voted for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, in the first ballot, while 20 GOP votes went to a range of other names. 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.
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