Jordan May Be Key To Saving Speakership For McCarthy

Playbook reports:

We caught up Sunday with one of the GOP fence-sitters, a member who has been in the room for these negotiations. And he told us that some of these undecided members won’t support McCarthy — even if he gives them everything they want.

Can Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) deliver McCarthy the gavel? More so than Donald Trump, who has largely failed to convince MAGA Republicans to back McCarthy, the House Freedom Caucus co-founder could be the only person who can get through to the detractors.

We’ve been watching Jordan stump for McCarthy on Fox News and other conservative outlets, arguing that he deserves the gavel. One McCarthy ally told us Jordan’s support has been instrumental in giving him cover back home.

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There’s no way to sugarcoat this: Seven years after his last, failed bid for the speakership, KEVIN McCARTHY’s dreams of wielding the gavel are again in peril.

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