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Whatever Happened To Ken Buck’s Election Integrity Stand?
29Oct By adminNo Comments
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Whatever Happened To Ken Buck’s Election Integrity Stand?

WASHINGTON ― Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) refused to support Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for House speaker because of Jordan’s own refusal to acknowledge Joe Biden’s very obvious victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. But after Jordan dropped out, Buck gladly voted for Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), even though Johnson had not disowned his past support of the former president’s election denialism ― and even played a key role in mainstreaming it within the GOP by organizing a legal brief seeking to throw out the results in key states.According to Buck, Jordan is “different than Mike Johnson” even though on this particular question, the differences seem subtle. Basically, Buck argues Johnson’s legal efforts were more righteous than Jordan’s political ones, even if many outside obs...
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Jim Jordan Admits An Election Loss
22Oct By adminNo Comments
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Jim Jordan Admits An Election Loss

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.) told reporters.Admitting defeat is not easy for Jordan. His speaker bid failed by increasingly wide margins across the three House votes this week, but he was poised to keep trying, with his allies at one point suggesting a marathon of votes designed to break the will of his opponents over the course of the week...
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House GOP ‘Back To The Drawing Board’ After Jim Jordan’s Exit From Speaker Race
21Oct By adminNo Comments
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House GOP ‘Back To The Drawing Board’ After Jim Jordan’s Exit From Speaker Race

WASHINGTON ― House Republicans hit the reset button on their search for a new House speaker and will try again next week to find a leader, after Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) bid came to a whimpering end Friday.Republicans voted against keeping Jordan as their speaker-designee by a margin of 86 to 112, lawmakers told reporters after their meeting in the Capitol basement. Jordan then accepted the result. “We put the question to them. They made a different decision. I told the conference that I appreciated getting to work with everyone, talking to everyone,” Jordan told reporters after the vote.“Unfortunately, Jim is no longer going to be the nominee,” Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters. “We will have to go back to the drawing board.”The clean slate brought out a plethora of announc...
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Jim Jordan Determined To Become Speaker Ahead Another Vote
20Oct By adminNo Comments
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Jim Jordan Determined To Become Speaker Ahead Another Vote

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is not done yet.Ahead of another likely losing vote for his speaker bid on Friday, Jordan said he thinks his opponents within the House Republican conference can still be persuaded to come around to him.“Look, there’s been multiple rounds of votes for speaker before. We all know that. I just know that we need to get a speaker as soon as possible so we can get to work for the American people,” Jordan told reporters at a morning press conference Friday.Jordan was referencing the marathon series of 15 votes it took for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to win the speaker’s gavel back in January. But momentum seems to be going against Jordan, not toward him. In his first vote, he got 200 of the 217 GOP votes he would need to become speaker. In his second, he dropped to 1...
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Jim Jordan Set to Fall Short Again in Third Speaker Vote
20Oct By adminNo Comments
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Jim Jordan Set to Fall Short Again in Third Speaker Vote

WASHINGTON—Republican speaker nominee Rep. Jim Jordan was set to fall short in a third round of voting to secure the gavel Friday morning, after struggling to win support from colleagues who have opposed his candidacy, likely leaving Republicans at a fresh impasse.While the Ohio conservative has campaigned as a speaker who can unite the party, he continues to face long odds, a full week after securing the GOP nomination and more than two weeks after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) was ousted. Republicans have no current fallback plan after rejecting a proposal to vote on giving more powers to Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry (R., N.C.).Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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GOP Rep. Says Wife Slept With Loaded Gun After Threats Over Jim Jordan Vote
20Oct By adminNo Comments
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GOP Rep. Says Wife Slept With Loaded Gun After Threats Over Jim Jordan Vote

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) has detailed the extreme safety precaution his wife felt compelled to take after receiving anonymous, threatening text messages following Bacon’s refusal to back Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) bid for House speaker.“She had terrible phone calls,” Bacon told reporters on Thursday, per The Hill. “I didn’t sleep well last night. I called her, and I go, ‘How you doing?’ She goes, ‘I slept really good. I had a loaded gun.’”She later received the menacing phone calls, per Bacon.Other Republicans have reported receiving chilling abuse for not backing Jordan.Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) and Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) have reported death threats.Jordan, who backed Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election result, has condemned the threatening messages. !function(f,b...
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Joe Biden Gets Laughs With 4 Blunt Words For Jim Jordan
19Oct By adminNo Comments
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Joe Biden Gets Laughs With 4 Blunt Words For Jim Jordan

“I ache for him,” the president snarked after a reporter asked for a comment on Jordan’s struggles. After a pause as reporters chuckled, Biden added that he had no view on the subject.“No. Zero. None,” he said:Biden’s boosters cheered for the sass, with many referencing “Dark Brandon.” !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n; n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '1621685564716533'); fbq('track', "PageView"); var _fbPartnerID = null; if (_fbPar...
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Rep. Jim Jordan’s Unity Message Arouses Skepticism On Social Media
19Oct By adminNo Comments
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Rep. Jim Jordan’s Unity Message Arouses Skepticism On Social Media

Although some of Rep. Jim Jordan’s supporters in his House speaker bid have praised him as a “fighter,” the Ohio Republican belatedly suggested playing nice on Wednesday as his chances of winning the speakership seemed to wane.Support for the fiery conservative declined in a second round of voting Wednesday and could reportedly dwindle further on future ballots. Meanwhile, some of Jordan’s Republican colleagues, like Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon, said they or their family members had received anonymous and threatening messages that they should vote for Jordan if they didn’t want to be primaried.The combination of events put Jordan in an awkward position on Wednesday night. Well, awkward for him, anyway, because this partisan-politician-among-partisan-pollticians was forced to call for, ugh, un...
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Jim Jordan Tries Again to Become House Speaker as Republicans Weigh Alternatives
18Oct By adminNo Comments
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Jim Jordan Tries Again to Become House Speaker as Republicans Weigh Alternatives

Updated Oct. 18, 2023 11:41 am ETWASHINGTON—Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) appeared likely to again fall short of the votes needed to be elected House speaker in a second ballot Wednesday, prompting lawmakers to more seriously consider other avenues for breaking the impasse that has paralyzed the chamber. More than two weeks after former House speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) was ousted, Republicans remained gripped in a fierce internal struggle over who to elect to lead them. Jordan, a favorite of the party’s populist wing but viewed skeptically by centrist and GOP establishment lawmakers, lost 20 Republican votes in the first ballot Tuesday afternoon, exceeding the handful of defections he can afford in the narrowly divided House with all Democrats opposed. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones &...
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Ex-Ohio State Wrestler Eviscerates GOP Lawmaker’s ‘Fighter’ Praise For Jim Jordan
18Oct By adminNo Comments
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Ex-Ohio State Wrestler Eviscerates GOP Lawmaker’s ‘Fighter’ Praise For Jim Jordan

Former Ohio State University wrestler Will Knight on Tuesday tore down the characterization of speaker nominee Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) as a “fighter.” (Watch the video below.)Fellow Trumper Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) used the term in a speech nominating Jordan before he failed to get enough votes for the speaker’s gavel.The glowing reference to his time on the “wrestling mat” drew audible gasps in the House, presumably because Jordan’s stint as an assistant coach at Ohio State included accusations that he overlooked the allegations of sexual abuse of team members by school doctor Richard Strauss.Knight was one of the athletes who said he was molested, and he wasn’t impressed by Stefanik’s praise for the Ohio congressman, which CNN’s Abby Phillip replayed for him.“The funny thing is that whe...
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