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Jim Jordan's Speakership Chances Face Big Hurdle After Second Vote Defeat
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4:38Now PlayingFifteen days after Kevin McCarthy was removed as House Speaker, the chamber remains at a standstill and will not hold another vote to find a leader on Wednesday, a source familiar with the situation told The Hill.
House members cast a second round of ballots for Speaker, but House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) fared no better, in fact losing support from the first vote on Tuesday. The final Speaker vote was 199 for Jordan, 212 for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and 22 for someone else.
But speaking after the vote, Jordan was undeterred in his work to reach 217 votes and flip holdouts. The next vote will be Thursday.
“We picked up some today, a couple dropped off, but they voted for me before. I think they can come back again. So we’ll keep talking to members. Keep working on it,” he said.
Meanwhile, the push to expand the power of Speaker Pro Tem Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) is heating up as the fractured GOP conference struggles to see a way forward.
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