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/
I've gotten into being a precinct delegate. I'm going to give a shout out to anyone with any inclination to get involved to consider getting into politics to start there. We'll have a difficult time getting all this cleaned up when we don't even have enough honest players on the bench to put in there once things play out, and it takes a couple years to get up to speed.