This guy is a real glutton for punishment
McCarthy got 188 votes in conference and then went thru 15 rounds of voting on the floor to get 30 more votes to be elected speaker.
It will be even more of a challenge for Jordan to get 90+ votes.
He can go to the floor and risk losing on the first ballot. But if he lost on the first ballot, at least he’d know who is opposed to him so he can try to work them over.
From what I’ve heard, the Republicans already know the first vote is going to fail. Their only goal at this point is to avoid the clown fiesta that happened for McCarthy, so I’d expect a long gap between the first failed vote and the second vote as they try and get all their ducks in a row.
Sounds like the same story we heard earlier this week. Just replace “Jordan beats Scott” with “Scalise beats Jordan.”
Do we just keep going until they run out of people to nominate?
They could cut to the chase and nominate George Santos. It’s a step down from Galactic Emperor but he might go for it.
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