Turns out Jim Jordan’s closed door secret ballot loss for Speaker was even uglier than we thought

| 3:00 pm EDT October 20, 2023
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It was humiliating enough for Jim Jordan that he only got 196 votes for Speaker this morning during a full floor vote; 25 of his House Republican colleagues voted against him. But then Republicans held a closed door secret ballot to determine whether Jordan should remain their nominee for Speaker. Not only did Jordan lose, it was crushing.

It’s now leaking out to the media that just 86 House Republicans voted for Jim Jordan to remain their party’s nominee for Speaker. That’s right, just eighty-six out of a total of 223 House Republicans (minus a handful of absences). That’s not much more than a third of them!

So now we have a better sense of just how thoroughly House Republicans hate Jim Jordan. This closed door vote tally shows that they hate Jordan much more than they’re willing to let on publicly. In fact House Republicans might hate Jim Jordan as much as we do – and that’s saying something.