EVERYONE INTO THE SPEAKER POOL! It was an anticlimactic ending for Jim Jordan on Friday. And minutes after the Republican conference booted the Ohio Republican as its speaker nominee, 86-112, the anticipated rush of alternative candidates began for the endlessly chaos-ridden House GOP. Who’s in?

House Republicans are in disarray, paralyzed and with no sign they can unify around a candidate for speaker. At the crux of the problem is a question Representative Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) asked in January during the last speaker fight: “Are we the party of Reagan?” Ten months later, the answer is resoundingly no. The far right toppled House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and ran a bruising campaign to install one of their own, Ohio Representative Jim Jordan—a man former speaker John Boehner once branded a “legislative terrorist”—in the job. It failed,...

House Republicans have dispensed with Jim Jordan as their nominee for the US speakership and now several more are preparing to enter the fray. The new field began to take shape minutes after the party voted by secret ballot to rescind Trump loyalist Jim Jordan’s nomination to the leadership post. Republicans plan to hold another candidate forum on Monday, allowing candidates time over the weekend to mount their campaigns, interim speaker Patrick McHenry said. Another nomination vote would be held as early as Tuesday. Here are some of the lawmakers...

Citation From the October 20, 2023, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room MATTHEW BOYLE (BREITBART WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF): I do think it's a smart move by Congressman Gaetz and the other members of that. It's worth noting that one of those original eight, Ken Buck, is also against Jordan. And so when he said his signature is on that letter by accident, so we'll see how this shakes out. But if that's what they need to be able to get there and vote for Jordan, and, you know, they,...

Republican Chaos: Still No Clear Path To Speaker After wavering and backing a temporary leader, Rep. Jim Jordan says he will push ahead with another round of voting for in his bid to become Speaker of the House. Meanwhile, President Biden is set to address the nation from the Oval Office to pressure Congress to pass aid for Israel and Ukraine. The podcast is produced by Casey Morell and Elena Moore. Our editor is Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi. Unlock access to this and other bonus content...

Far-right House Republicans outraged that nearly two dozen members of the GOP conference have voted against Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan for Speaker have thrown the body into chaos while opposing the election of a temporary Speaker – an effort they are working to block. After insisting he would press for a third vote Thursday morning, Jordan met with House Republicans and agreed to put his quest for the Speakership on pause and allow Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry to be elected to that role temporarily. “Per a source in the...

Republicans and pundits alike have come up with some increasingly absurd spins during the House GOP’s self-imposed leadership crisis, but Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz may have delivered the most pathetic take on Thursday. Following a failed second round of votes that found him losing support among his GOP colleagues for Speaker of the House, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) retreated on Thursday and will reportedly back a plan to temporarily empower Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), the Speaker pro tempore. Under this proposal, McHenry would be able to advance legislation and...

Inside the Hive host Brian Stelter breaks down the GOP mess in Congress with Vanity Fair national political reporter Abigail Tracy, who has been covering the Speaker fracas from the Capitol, and Brian Rosenwald, the author of Talk Radio’s America. They discuss Jim Jordan’s rise from fringe firebrand to the party’s pick, and how right-wing media fuels Republican dysfunction and extremism. “It’s really all about conservative media and how they’ve inverted the power structure on Capitol Hill,” said Rosenwald. “So that the people who actually wield the power are the...

I have to admit. I was getting pretty nervous. For a minute there, it looked like Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan had built up enough momentum over the weekend to become the next House speaker. That would have been bad for reasons I recount and (the latter link includes an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch – highly recommended). A Speaker Jordan would have added more chaos to an already chaotic House of Representatives. The whole point of his career has been going to war with democratic institutions. By Monday,...

Citation From the October 18, 2023, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Right now, with all that's going on in the world, you know, I would like to think that -- the Republicans, with their very limited margin that they have, would put aside petty differences and elect the speaker of the House so the people's House can be open again. And I wouldn't leave the room until you guys finally decided who that person is. I'd like it to be Jim Jordan, but...