House members cast a second round of ballots for Speaker on Wednesday, 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. “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.
It is unclear if there will be another vote on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the push to expand the power of McHenry is heating up as the fractured GOP conference struggles to see a way forward.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4262180-calls-mchenry-rise-jordan-speaker-vote-live-coverage/
Question- how many Dems-Republicans-independents? This is why it makes me crazy to have such narrow margins between numbers... and why the down ticket ballot wins by fraud were so frustrating and SHOULD NOT have been accepted. I find that vote number for Jeffries alarming.
Right!? We are at war, no doubt about it.
Oh yeah, I can't fathom how all of these cretins leftists can support people that blatantly have no regard for what's good for the country. But then again, that's why they are leftists. So unbelievably gay.
Why?
It's the number of Democrats isn't it?