WASHINGTON — After failing to win the speaker’s gavel in a House floor vote for the third time, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Friday asked his GOP colleagues if he should keep trying. Voting by secret ballot in the Capitol basement, Republicans told Jordan no by a vote of 112 to 86. And that was that. “Rep. Jordan stated before the vote that he would accept the will of the conference and so he was gracious, as we expected him to be, in accepting the results,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.)...

Rep. Jim Jordan is reportedly out as GOP nominee for House Speaker after a third vote on Friday afternoon failed to elect the Ohio Congressman to the seat. Multiple House members told NBC News that Jordan is "no longer" the House Republican Conference speaker-designate. In a secret ballot vote behind closed doors, 112 members voted against Jordan remaining as the speaker-designate, while just 89 were in favor of Jordan continuing in the position. The question on the ballot was reportedly a "yes or no" on whether Jordan should remain, with...

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is no longer the House Republican nominee for Speaker. Jordan lost a secret ballot vote in a Friday afternoon Republican Conference meeting to remain Speaker-designate. Breitbart News is told the vote was 88 votes to keep Jordan and 112 to eject him. House Republicans will now go home for the weekend without a nominee for Speaker despite repeated calls from Jordan’s holdouts for the House to get back to work. They will reconvene on Monday evening for a candidate forum. With Jordan out, Breitbart News is...

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Republicans in the House of Representatives voted behind closed doors Friday to remove conservative firebrand Jim Jordan as their speaker nominee after he couldn’t get backing from enough GOP colleagues to nail down the job. “I told the conference that it was an honor to be their speaker designee,” Jordan said after the 122-86 vote. “I thought it was important that we all we all know, get an answer to the question if they wanted me to continue in that in that role. And so, we...

Republicans voted to remove Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as their nominee for House speaker Friday, hours after he continued to lose votes in a third round of the election—restarting the process for electing a House speaker and allowing new candidates to emerge. Republicans voted against Jordan by secret ballot in a private meeting Friday by a wide margin, with 122 members of the GOP conference voting to remove him and only 86 voting to keep him as their nominee and speaker designate, according to multiple reports. The vote comes after...

House Republicans are moving back to square one after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) failed to hold on to his status as speaker designate. The Ohio Republican lost three votes in a row, each time with less support, to replace Kevin McCarthy as House speaker, and the GOP caucus held a secret ballot Friday afternoon to determine whether he would remain the party's nominee. He fell short. Republicans will leave Washington, D.C., for the weekend and then hold a candidate forum Monday night to decide on a new nominee.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan was voted out of the race for speaker of the House on Friday after failing to receive the necessary votes on three separate ballots. Jordan failed to receive enough votes Friday morning. After the third round of votes, Jordan was shy of the necessary 214 to win the Speakership. The final quorum call put the House attendance at 427, meaning 214 remains the majority threshold unless members voted “present” during the roll call vote for Speaker. The Daily Caller first reported that former Speaker of...

Things are moving in the wrong direction for Rep. Jim Jordan. The fiery Ohio Republican is seeking the vacant speakership in the House of Representatives, but after a third vote on Friday, he lost support rather than gaining it. Jordan secured 194 votes on Friday — well short of the 217 he would need to become the new speaker of the House. That number represents the second straight decrease in total votes the congressman has received. In an initial Tuesday vote, Jordan saw 20 members of his own party decline...

Rep. Jim Jordan fell short a third time in his quest for the speaker’s gavel, losing more Republican support on the House floor than he did in the first two rounds of voting. The conservative firebrand from Ohio hasn’t indicated when or if he plans to drop out. At a morning press conference before the vote, a defiant Mr. Jordan said nothing about stepping aside. He told reporters lawmakers would remain in session through the weekend if needed. “Our plan this weekend is to get a speaker elected to the...