Analysis: The House Judiciary Committee chair always faced an uphill fight for the speaker’s gavel, but his bungled effort left him with deep enemies inside the GOP caucus.
Updated: 1 minute agoRep. Jim Jordan walks back to his office after losing the second speaker ballot vote on Oct. 18, 2023. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post.
Jordan always faced an uphill fight to claim the speaker’s gavel, needing 217 of the 221 Republicans to vote for a pugnacious conservative who had turned off dozens of veteran GOP lawmakers who prefer a reassuring steady hand. “I appreciated getting to work with everyone, talk with everyone, I got to know members in our conference that I didn’t really know that well,” Jordan said, leaving without taking any questions.
Ellzey, who came into office in a 2021 special election, went from quiet opposition to fiercely opposed to Jordan after some Republicans received threats from far-right activists. He felt Jordan’s response - which boiled down to largely one tweet condemning violence - was tepid at best. “Jim Jordan deserved better than that,” Rep. Matt Gaetz , who helped launch this chaos by leading the Oct. 3 ouster of McCarthy as speaker, told reporters Friday.
These newer Republicans don’t know firsthand about past infighting, instead seeing Jordan as the one who so fervently worked those 15 ballots in January to help elect McCarthy. A solid majority of Republicans from the 18 districts that Biden won three years ago backed Jordan on the initial ballots, trusting their deep loyalty to McCarthy and his support for Jordan.
“Unfortunately with Jim, there was a lot of baggage,” said Rep. Don Bacon , first elected in 2016 and on hand for the five-week shutdown that Jordan orchestrated in late 2018.A member of the armed services panel, Bacon hinted that, if he got really close to the majority on the first or second ballot, maybe he could be coaxed into supporting Jordan.
Within 30 hours they did just that, prompting Scalise to withdraw. On Oct. 13, Jordan became the nominee, but only after 55 Republicans wrote on a secret ballot that they would not support him on the House floor. Until that moment, Jordan’s antagonists had not been particularly well organized. “This was all organic. Nobody knew I was going to do it, nobody knew Chairwoman Granger was going to do it,” Ellzey, an Appropriations Committee member, said.
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