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- The Founding Fathers Couldn't Have Foreseen Trump—But They Immunized Him
- Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term
- From New York to Arizona: Inside the head-spinning week of Trump’s legal drama
- Voting ‘is a lot of work’
- How Different Factions Voted
- ‘Rivers in the sky’ have drenched California, yet even more extreme rains are possible
At the Urbana Brewing Company on Tuesday, patrons gave Mr. Jordan passing marks. Eric Forson, 50, said that when he wrote to his elected representatives during the 2013 government shutdown, Mr. Jordan was the only one who responded. Two other Republicans who voted for Mr. Jordan on Tuesday switched on Wednesday to supporting committee chairs. Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa, who spoke out against Mr. Jordan during a closed-door meeting of Republicans, cast her ballot for Representative Kay Granger of Texas, the Appropriations Committee chairwoman. Representative Pete Stauber of Minnesota voted for Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas, the chairman of the Natural Resources Committee on which both men sit.
The Founding Fathers Couldn't Have Foreseen Trump—But They Immunized Him
Instead, the number of Republicans refusing to back him grew by two on Wednesday. Mr. Jordan won 199 votes and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the Democratic leader, won 212 votes. Four Republicans who had voted for Mr. Jordan on the first ballot rose to oppose him, and two Republicans who had voted against Mr. Jordan on the first ballot changed their votes and supported him. Jim Jordan, a hard-right Ohio Republican, couldn’t gain enough support from his party to become speaker.
Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term
Washington — GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio failed in his second attempt to become speaker of the House, again falling short of the 217 votes needed to be elected and casting doubt about the way forward in the still-leaderless lower chamber. Instead, he has spent his time in Congress fighting to get retribution for his political allies, to kill legislation and eventually to maneuver his way to becoming the top Republican on some of the chamber’s most powerful committees. A handful of Republicans are still opposed to Jordan, but his allies think they will break from their opposition as they go through multiple rounds and come under intense pressure to elect a speaker. He could afford to lose no more than three votes and still win the speaker’s gavel. McCarthy lost 19 votes back in January in his first election for speaker.
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The 20 Republicans who voted against Jordan include House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger of Texas, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado and a quartet of New York Republicans in purple districts. The anti-Jordan contingent cast six votes for McCarthy, seven votes for Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three for former New York GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin, among other alternatives. ET Wednesday, where the Ohio Republican and his allies hope to see his support increase even in the face of entrenched opposition. Several of the members who are opposed to Jordan are members of the House appropriations committee, who are reportedly opposed to the way Jordan has embraced a hard line on spending cuts and shutting down the government. When McCarthy negotiated himself into the speakership earlier this year, one of his key concessions was allowing any House member to file a motion to vacate, or remove him from speaker. Representative Matt Gaetz, a far-right Republican from Florida, filed such a motion earlier this month and enough Republicans – eight in total – voted against McCarthy to oust him.
Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana told reporters she had been moved by the nominating speech by Representative Tom Cole of Oklahoma, which cast Mr. Jordan as a fiscal hawk ready to right the country’s finances. After winning 200 votes on Tuesday, the Judiciary Committee chairman won 199 on Wednesday, after picking up the votes of two Republicans while losing the support of four others. One Republican who had been absent on Tuesday, Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida, voted for Mr. Jordan on Wednesday. Still, many lawmakers have grown deeply alarmed about the absence of an elected speaker as wars are raging in Israel and Ukraine and the government is within weeks of shutting down if Congress fails to reach a spending agreement. Commissioners regularly made map changes in live meetings and sometimes did not upload the new maps for days, making it difficult for the public to understand the changes. Delayed Census data due to the pandemic shortened how much time the commission had to complete its work.
Those moderate lawmakers normally seek compromise, and the bet was that they would want to quickly patch over Republican divisions and move forward to get the House working again in regular order. An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the political party of a group of representatives who notably voted “no” on new aid for Israel. While all Democrats voted in favor of aid to Ukraine and all but Ms. Tlaib supported funding to Taiwan, 37 left-leaning Democrats defected to vote against the Israel aid bill. They said before the vote that they opposed unfettered aid to Israel that could be used in its offensive in Gaza. The opposition to the Israel aid represented a minority of Democrats, but reflected the deep resistance to unconditional aid and the divisions in the party on Gaza.
The record for low turnout in a California statewide primary is 25.17% of registered voters, set in 2014. Setting aside that election, the average gubernatorial primary over the last two decades is closer to 35%. Apply that to current voter registration and the marker for this to be a typical primary is probably a turnout of about 7.8 million voters. As of Friday morning, only 11% of ballots had been returned to county elections officials across the state. By comparison, you have to go back to 1982 to find a California gubernatorial primary in which at least half of all registered voters participated, a level of voter engagement that’s reached in almost every November election. In the portions of the district that have a strong Vietnamese population, Steel logged a 14-percentage-point gain over the election showing in 2018 of former Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican who lost the seat.
"The eight of us have said that we are willing to accept censure, sanction, suspension, removal from the Republican Conference. We of course will remain Republicans," Gaetz said. "But if what these holdouts need is a pound of our flesh, we're willing to give it to them in order to see them elect Jim Jordan for speaker." Speaking on the steps of the Capitol after the third vote, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, who led the charge against McCarthy, said he and other members were prepared to fall on their swords to secure Jordan the gavel. "I thought it was important that we all know, get an answer to the question if they wanted me to continue in that role," he said.
Republicans drop Jim Jordan as US House Speaker nominee - BBC.com
Republicans drop Jim Jordan as US House Speaker nominee.
Posted: Fri, 20 Oct 2023 07:00:00 GMT [source]
Leading up to the vote, some Republicans were resentful of the pressure put on them by Jordan’s allies and complained they were being threatened with primary opponents if they didn’t support him as speaker. A congressman who has opposed Jordan’s quest for speakership from the start says the conference made a decision in January in backing Kevin McCarthy and should stick to it. In all, 212 Democrats voted unanimously for their House leader, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, while 200 Republicans voted for Jordan and 20 for someone else.
But the state of nearly 40 million people still has by far the largest House delegation. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — New California congressional maps finalized Monday leave the Los Angeles area with one fewer U.S. House seats and sets up a handful of highly competitive races for next year's midterm elections. The poll finds an astounding 40-point gap between Newsom, the choice of 50% of voters surveyed, and Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle, who was chosen by 10% of voters and leading all other candidates on the ballot. In fact, political organizations often based their efforts on whether a voter participated in the last election.
In the narrowly divided House, Jordan would need the support of nearly every Republican in the conference to claim the gavel. In a second ballot on Wednesday, Jordan also lost ground, with 22 Republicans voting against him, two more than on the first ballot. “One thing I cannot stomach or support is a bully,” said a statement from the congresswomanMariannette Miller-Meeks, an Iowa Republican, who switched her vote against Jordan on a second ballot after receiving “credible death threats”.
“We must prove to the American people that we can govern effectively and responsibly or, in 15 months, we’ll be debating who the minority leader is and preparing for Joe Biden’s second inaugural,” he said. Deeply reported insights into legislation, politics and policy from Sacramento, Washington and beyond. Two Republicans — Reps. Doug LaMalfa of Richvale and Victoria Spartz of Indiana— switched their votes to Jordan. Florida’s Rep. Gus Bilirakis, who was absent for Tuesday’s vote, voted for Jordan on Wednesday.
“Hannity would like to know why during a war breaking out between Israel and Hamas, with the war in Ukraine, with the wide open borders, with a budget that’s unfinished why would Rep XXX be against Rep Jim Jordan for speaker? Please let us know when Rep XXXX plans on opening The People’s House so work can be done,” the email read. After about three hours, those exiting the room described the tone as "angry," with Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher muttering to reporters that he was heading to a chapel to get a rosary. The speaker designee made the case that the House has important work to do, like passing more funding for Israel.
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