Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) just isn’t finished but.
Forward of one other possible dropping vote for his speaker bid on Friday, Jordan mentioned he thinks his opponents throughout the Home Republican convention can nonetheless be persuaded to come back round to him.
“Look, there’s been a number of rounds of votes for speaker earlier than. Everyone knows that. I simply know that we have to get a speaker as quickly as doable so we are able to get to work for the American individuals,” Jordan advised reporters at a morning press convention Friday.
Jordan was referencing the marathon sequence of 15 votes it took for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to win the speaker’s gavel again in January. However momentum appears to be going in opposition to Jordan, not towards him. In his first vote, he bought 200 of the 217 GOP votes he would wish to grow to be speaker. In his second, he dropped to 199.
Since then, most of the Republicans who voted in opposition to him have mentioned they have obtained numerous varieties of threats and intimidation techniques to get them to vote in his favor.
“We stayed the identical. We picked up just a few, we misplaced just a few. I believe those we misplaced can come again,” Jordan mentioned.
One potential situation is an identical marathon sequence of votes to these in January with the thought of carrying down his opposition. However that technique may backfire along with his colleagues, who are actually deep into the third week and not using a speaker and getting more and more pissed off.
Jordan additionally caught by his actions surrounding the 2020 presidential election and his help for former President Donald Trump’s lies that the vote was rigged in opposition to him.
Requested why he despatched a memo outlining a possible technique to attempt to overturn the election’s outcomes to then-White Home chief of workers Mark Meadows, Jordan downplayed the motion.
“I forwarded it on to him. That was all it was,” Jordan mentioned, citing the memo’s creator as a former inspector common beneath Donald Rumsfeld, the protection secretary beneath George W. Bush.
“I believe there have been all types of issues with the 2020 election. I’ve been clear about that,” Jordan mentioned.
Jordan’s actions through the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrectionist assault on the U.S. Capitol have been shrouded in thriller. He has mentioned he spoke to Trump a number of instances throughout that day however has refused to reveal the topic of these conversations and blew off a subpoena from the bipartisan congressional committee that investigated the assault.
Jordan demurred on how he may strategy the supplemental spending proposal that President Joe Biden advocated for in a televised speech Thursday evening. The invoice is predicted to complete $100 billion, with the vast majority of the cash going to Ukraine and a few to Israel. Biden known as each international locations vital to the protection of democracy globally.
“I’ve bought to see the bundle however we definitely want to assist Israel,” Jordan mentioned.
