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House Republicans drop Jim Jordan as speaker nominee, stumbling back to square one

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Jim Jordan, House Judiciary chairman and staunch ally of Donald Trump, listens to lawmakers call out their votes as he loses the third ballot in his bid to become speaker of the House. Photo / AP

Republicans abruptly dropped Jim Jordan this morning as their nominee for House speaker, making the decision during a closed-door session after the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump failed badly on a third ballot for the gavel.

The outcome left Republicans dejected, frustrated and sinking deeper into turmoil, another week without a House speaker bordering on a full-blown crisis. House Republicans have no realistic or working plan to unite the fractured GOP majority, elect a new speaker and return to the work of Congress that has been languishing since hard-liners ousted Kevin McCarthy at the start of the month.

Afterward the meeting, Jordan said simply of his colleagues, “We put the question to them, they made a different decision.”

The hard-charging Judiciary Committee chairman said House Republicans now need to come together and “figure out who our speaker is going to be”.

Jim Jordan, House Judiciary chairman and staunch ally of Donald Trump. Photo / APJim Jordan, House Judiciary chairman and staunch ally of Donald Trump. Photo / AP

Their majority control floundering, Republicans left the private session blaming one another for the divisions they have created. Next steps were highly uncertain as a wide range of Republican lawmakers started pitching themselves for speaker.

But it appears no one at present can win a GOP majority, leaving the House without a speaker and unable to function for the foreseeable future, an embarrassing blow to a central US seat of government.

“We’re in a very bad place right now,” McCarthy said.

The plan is for new nominees to come forward at a candidate forum next week. Majority leader Steve Scalise said they would “start over” on Monday.

In the meantime, Mark Alford, a freshman from Missouri, was far from alone in expressing his anger and disappointment.

“I gave up my career to come here to do something for America, to rebuild our military, to get spending under control, to secure our border — and here we are in this quicksand,” he said.

In a floor vote Friday morning, local time, Jordan’s third reach for the gavel, he lost 25 Republican colleagues, worse than he had fared earlier in the week and far from the majority needed.

A founder of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, Jordan’s run essentially collapsed in large part because more centrist Republicans were revolting over the nominee and the hardball tactics being used to win their votes. They have been bombarded with harassing phone calls and even reported death threats.

To win over GOP colleagues, Jordan had relied on backing from Trump, the party’s frontrunner in the 2024 election, and groups pressuring rank-and-file lawmakers for the vote. But they were not enough and in fact backfired on some.

Friday’s vote was 194 for Jordan, his lowest tally yet, and 210 for Jeffries, with two absences on each side.

In fact, the Jordan lost rather than gained votes despite hours spent trying to win over holdouts, with no improvement from the 20 and then 22 Republicans he lost in early rounds this week.

“He doesn’t have the votes to be speaker,” Carlos Gimenez, said after a meeting when Jordan sought to hear detractors out and shore up support.

The holdouts want “nothing” from Jordan, Gimenez said, adding that some of the lawmakers in the meeting simply called on Jordan to drop out of the race.

For more than two weeks the stalemate has shut down the US House, leaving a major part of the Government severely hobbled at a time of challenges at home and abroad. While Democrats have offered to broker a bipartisan deal to reopen the House, the Republican majority appears to have no idea how to end the political turmoil and get back to work.

With Republicans in majority control of the House, 221-212, any candidate can lose only a few detractors. It appears there is no Republican at present who can win a clear majority, 217 votes, to become speaker.

One extraordinary idea, to give the interim speaker pro tempore, Patrick McHenry, more powers for the next several months to at least bring the House back into session and conduct crucial business, was swiftly rejected by Jordan’s own ultra-conservative allies.

A “betrayal,” said Jim Banks.

Republicans predict the House could essentially stay closed until the mid-November deadline for Congress to approve funding or risk a federal government shutdown.

“We’re trying to figure out if there’s a way we can get back with a Republican-only solution,” said veteran legislator Tom Cole.

“That’s what normal majorities do. What this majority has done is prove it’s not a normal majority.”

What was clear was that Jordan, who had appeared determined to wait out his foes, ultimately realised his path to become House speaker had collapsed.

Many view Jordan as too extreme for a central seat of US power, second in line to the presidency.

“One thing I cannot stomach or support is a bully,” said a statement from Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who voted against Jordan on the second ballot and said she received “credible death threats”.

Democratic leader Jeffries reiterated that his party was “ready, willing and able” to work with more traditional Republicans on a path to reopen the House – particularly as Congress is being asked to consider President Joe Biden’s aid package for Israel, Ukraine and other needs.

Elevating McHenry to an expanded speaker’s role could be a possible off-ramp for the crisis, but it would not be as politically simple as it might seem.

Republicans are loath to partner with the Democrats in a bipartisan way on the arrangement, and it’s highly unlikely Republicans could agree to give McHenry more powers on their own, since their hard-liners don’t like it.

McHenry himself has brushed off attempts to take the job more permanently after he was appointed to the role after the unprecedented ouster of McCarthy more than two weeks ago.

Former House speaker Kevin McCarthy nominates Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for speaker as Republicans try to elect Jordan, a top Donald Trump ally, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, October 20. Photo / APFormer House speaker Kevin McCarthy nominates Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for speaker as Republicans try to elect Jordan, a top Donald Trump ally, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, October 20. Photo / AP

Jordan has been a top Trump ally, particularly during the January 6 Capitol attack by the former president’s backers who were trying to overturn the 2020 election he lost to Biden. Days later, Trump awarded Jordan a Medal of Freedom.

First elected in 2006, Jordan has few bills to his name from his time in office. He also faces questions about his past.

Some years ago, Jordan denied allegations from former wrestlers during his time as an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University who accused him of knowing about claims they were inappropriately groped by an Ohio State doctor. Jordan has said he was never aware of any abuse.

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