There are at least 10-20 Republicans who remain unwilling to support Rep. Jim Jordan. They're frustrated over the treatment of Rep. Steve Scalise during his speaker bid and still angry over former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's ouster.

Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, still faces an uphill climb to the House speakership, with at least 10 to 20 Republican members who oppose his nomination, CBS News has learned, based on background conversations over the weekend with six key House Republicans and more than a dozen sources familiar with the deliberations.

“At least 10 to 20,” one of the House Republicans told CBS News on Sunday, while another added that that Jordan’s support has grown incrementally in recent days but remains soft.

While Jordan’s confidants remain optimistic that he can get to the necessary 217 votes Tuesday, when the House is scheduled to bring a vote to the floor, several who are more critical of Jordan privately insisted this weekend that at about a dozen Republicans remain unwilling to support him, due to their frustrations over how Rep. Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, was treated during his speaker bid and their simmering anger over the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. They also are wary of whether Jordan can handle the intensity of the challenges facing Congress in the coming months.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    That’s exactly my point.

    If it were any sane speaker, aid packages to those countries wouldn’t even be an issue. The bill probably would have passed and the supplies already on their way to Israel and Ukraine before the ink even dries. Jordan and his ilk are going to be facing constant pressure to sign off on aid, and he’s going to come up with every excuse he can think of not to give it to them. And with all the pressure and focus on trying to get him to pass an aid package, he won’t have time to do as much domestic damage.

    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Don’t be so sure, Trump was an incompetent idiot that found people to work on the border wall, banning Muslims and clearing people’s visas. I’m sure Jordan has allies that would work on the domestic agenda.

      • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Trump was able to do that because he already had a celebrity following, and a whole bunch of vultures saw a whole bunch of money in building that wall.

        Jordan does not have the following or the charisma that Trump has, and there isn’t a whole hell of a lot of money to be made trying to figure out what else is on Hunter Biden’s laptop or why Twitter suspended one of their accounts again. If he had the support even within his own party, he’d be speaker already.