Hardline Republican Jim Jordan is set to take his sputtering bid for speaker to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this week, hoping to bulldoze opposition from dozens within his own party by applying pressure in a series of public votes.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan , a prime contender in the race to be the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, speaks to reporters during a break in a House Republican Conference meeting as Republicans work to restart their effort to pick a new leader for the House after party infighting led...is set to take his sputtering bid for speaker to the floor of the U.S.
Even Jordan supporters recognize the possibility of Democrats helping to elect an alternative candidate if Republicans cannot agree on a speaker among themselves. But 55 Republicans opposed the Ohio Republican in a secret ballot on Friday, some of them bristling with hostility after No. 2 House Republicanwas forced to withdraw from the speaker's race a day after being chosen as the party's first nominee, due to opposition from Jordan supporters.
"We've allowed a different process of democracy to take hold within our own conference, which is that majority doesn't rule," Representative Dan Crenshaw, a Jordan supporter, told CNN on Sunday. "It's been said Jesus couldn't get to 217 in this conference, right? I think he'll have an easier time getting to 217 on the floor than Kevin did in January," said Representative Thomas Massie, a Jordan supporter.
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