Following a third vote by the Republican caucus, in which Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) lost voters and fell even further short of the 217 votes needed to win the vote on the House floor to become the Speaker, the party voted to remove him as the selected candidate, leaving no GOP candidate. The inability of the House to conduct business without a Speaker has begun to cause panic in the administration, as well as among Republicans.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who led the move to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, tweeted that Jordan was “knifed” by his fellow Republicans: “The most popular Republican in Congress was just knifed in an anonymous vote in a secret closed door meeting in the basement of the Capitol. This is the Swamp at work,” he wrote on his X account.
