GOP's Jim Jordan will try again to become House speaker, but his detractors are considering options
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Having lost the first vote to become House speaker, Rep. Jim Jordan will try a decisive second ballot.

Having lost the first vote to become House speaker, Rep. Jim Jordan will try again on a decisive second ballot that will test whether the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump can win over the holdouts or if his bid for the gavel is collapsing, denied by detractors.

Ahead of Wednesday morning’s voting, Jordan made an unexpected plea for party unity, the combative Judiciary Committee chairman telling his colleagues on social media, “we must stop attacking each other and come together.”

But a surprisingly large and politically diverse group of 20 Republicans rejected Jordan’s nomination, many resisting the hardball tactics enforcing support, and viewing the Ohio congressman as too extreme for the powerful position of House speaker, second in line to the presidency.

    • Unaware7013@kbin.social
      211·
      9 months ago

      Idiocy is a core tenent of the Republican platform and has been for years. Intelligence has been looked down on by the Republican party for the 20 odd years I’ve been paying attention, and it’s only gotten worse as they’ve cozied up to the insane authoritarians and leaned into the bugfuck support of ‘religion’ to get their way/keep themselves in power

    • Uniquitous@lemmy.oneEnglish
      151·
      9 months ago

      That’s the problem with representative democracy. You get enough idiots voting and they’ll elect compatible representation.

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        211·
        9 months ago

        Republicans keep saying government is corrupt, incompetent, and useless, then they get elected to run the government and prove their point.

        • david@feddit.uk
          121·
          9 months ago

          If government was done well, people might be happy paying their taxes, and that’s the last thing republicans want.