Looks like House Republicans have a whole new plan to keep Jim Jordan from becoming Speaker

| 12:21 am EDT October 16, 2023
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We’ve already seen various House Republicans make clear that Jim Jordan does not currently have the votes to become Speaker. We’ve also seen various House Republicans make clear that they intend to keep Jordan from getting the votes. Some of them are even publicly asking Hakeem Jeffries to help them make someone other than Jordan the Speaker. Now some House Republicans are floating yet another strategy.

Jim Jordan is supposedly planning to force a full House vote for Speaker this Tuesday, even as he tries all kinds of bizarre stunts such as getting Sean Hannity involved. Again, Jordan isn’t close to having the votes. But just to make sure he doesn’t get there, a group of House Republicans are now leaking to the media that they’re nominate some other unnamed Republican on Tuesday, so that House Republicans have someone else to vote for.

This is how you know House Republicans are getting desperate. Jim Jordan is still officially their party’s nominee for Speaker. Yet House Republicans are now threatening to essentially run a primary challenger against Jordan in the race for Speaker, just to make sure he loses. House Republicans must really hate Jim Jordan. And they appear to be nowhere near being able to elect a Speaker.