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The Washington Post reports: Rather than risk coming up short a second time in one day, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has said the House will vote again at 11 a.m. Wednesday. That will presumably give Jordan and his allies more time to try to win over enough holdouts to clinch the speakership. Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.), who earlier on Tuesday …

The New York Post reports: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Oh.) fell short of the number of votes needed to succeed ousted Kevin McCarthy as the next Speaker of the House, on the first ballot. The night before Tuesday’s vote, several Republican lawmakers emerged from a House GOP conference meeting saying that they won’t vote for Jordan, 59. Jordan, however, came out …

The Washington Post reports: The House is expected to vote Tuesday afternoon on whether to make Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) its next speaker. Jordan, a conservative firebrand who is allied with former president Donald Trump, was chosen by fellow Republicans on Friday to lead the House but must win a majority in the full chamber to take the gavel. Jordan, …

The right wing Daily Caller reports: Conservative donors are pledging to withhold funding from Republican House members who refuse to support House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan for Speaker, the Daily Caller has learned. GOP donors are telling the Caller they will be withholding their donations to anyone who does not end up supporting Jordan in the vote. “Donors are extremely …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) will soon face a Congressional vote that could make him second in line to the presidency as Speaker of the House. He is unwilling, however, to admit that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 vote in a free and fair election. CNN’s Manu Raju caught up with Jordan just an hour before the …

NBC News reports: Democrats are already crafting a strategy to use Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, as a political weapon against Republicans in the next election if he becomes the next House speaker. In a memo to House Democrats, first shared with NBC News, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee urged party members and candidates to portray the entire GOP as beholden …

The Hill reports: A left-leaning watchdog group released an ad Monday targeting Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and supporters of his Speakership bid for Jordan’s role in former President Trump’s attempts to stay in power after the 2020 election and for Jordan’s connection to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The ad, released on Monday by the Congressional Integrity Project, …

The Independent reports: Even as the tide is beginning to turn for Rep Jim Jordan and his initially uphill climb to become speaker of the House, a number of GOP members still say that he’s going to struggle to get the votes he needs – 217 – on the floor of the chamber where a vote is expected at noon …

“Why is it a shock to certain lawmakers and members of the media mob, all of you out there, that yours truly, a member of the press, is daring to ask elected representatives, the so-called public servants in this country, if and when they plan to wrap up the speaker battle and reopen the people’s house amid growing chaos both …

The Hill reports: Opposition to House GOP Speaker nominee Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio) is crumbling as Republicans return to Washington for a House vote to try to officially elect him. Four key lawmakers who signaled opposition to Jordan last week fell like a set of dominoes Monday, giving the Ohio Republican a significant boost ahead of an expected floor vote …

Mediaite reports: Fox News host Sean Hannity isn’t shy about voicing his opinion on his eponymous evening show Hannity, but multiple media outlets are reporting that he isn’t just sharing his views about House Republicans’ ongoing struggle to elect a Speaker — he’s actively working behind the scenes to nudge them along. As first reported by Axios’ Capitol Hill reporter …

Politico reports: A faction of Republicans that strongly opposes Jim Jordan is vowing he’ll have a challenger during the House floor speakership vote on Tuesday, according to two House Republicans familiar with the planning. While they have not yet nailed down a specific name, they believe the person they ultimately land on will not only be able block Jordan from …

The Guardian reports: Top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries confirmed Sunday that “informal conversations have been underway” for a bipartisan solution to the leadership crisis in the US House of Representatives. Jeffries declined to say if he would allow Democrat representatives to vote for a Republican speaker as a way of ushering one into power, given the apparent inability of any …

The Hill reports: Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) defended Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) attempt to overturn the 2020 election, pointing to other Republicans who attempted to do the same. CNN’s Jake Tapper pointed out that Jordan was one of the many Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election results, but Crenshaw said that wouldn’t stop him from supporting him. The …

CNN reports: A number of House Republicans are in talks to block Rep. Jim Jordan’s path to the speakership as the Ohio Republican tries to force a floor vote on Tuesday, according to multiple GOP sources. One senior Republican House member who is part of the opposition to Jordan told CNN that there he believes there are roughly 40 “no” …

The New York Times reports: Representative Jim Jordan and his allies have begun a right-wing pressure campaign against Republicans opposed to electing him speaker, working to unleash the rage of the party’s base voters against any lawmaker standing in the way of his election. Even after Mr. Jordan, the hard-right Ohio Republican, won his party’s nomination for the post on …

Mediaite has the transcript: MIKE PENCE: Jim Jordan would be an outstanding speaker of the House. He is a principled conservative, just as Steve Scalise is, and at a time when we see war raging in Eastern Europe, the worst attack on the Jewish state of Israel since its re-founding in 1948, challenges here at home in our economy, a …

NBC News reports: Democrats are standing firm in their refusal to bail out the House Republican majority as it struggles to elect a new speaker 10 days after after booting Rep. Kevin McCarthy. They’re also dialing up the rhetoric against the GOP’s new nominee for speaker, prominent Trump ally Jim Jordan of Ohio, blasting him as an insurrectionist, election denier …

Mediaite reports: Ex-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) blasted her former House GOP colleague Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Friday and warned Republicans that if they make him House speaker they will lose the majority in the next election. Last weekend Cheney also put Jordan on blast while giving a speech at the University of Minnesota. “Jim Jordan knew more about what …

The Associated Press reports: Republicans chose Rep. Jim Jordan as their new nominee for House speaker on Friday during internal voting, putting the gavel within reach of the staunch ally of GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump. Jordan, of Ohio, will now try to unite colleagues from the deeply divided House GOP majority around his bid ahead of a floor vote, …