There’s little that unites the 22 House Republicans who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for House speaker on Wednesday.
There’s little that unites the 22 House Republicans who voted against Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker on Wednesday.
“This was not an organized movement,” Rep. Steve Womack , who voted for Scalise on Tuesday and Wednesday, told reporters. But six of them represent districts that President Biden carried in 2020 — in some cases by big margins. She voted against Jordan again on Wednesday — and so did six other Republicans on her committee: Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart , Jake Ellzey , Tony Gonzales , John Rutherford , Mike Simpson and Womack. All of them represent safe districts except for Rutherford, whose district the Cook Political Report considers a toss-up because of an ongoing redistricting lawsuit.
Just one Republican who didn’t back Jordan, for comparison, is a member of the Freedom Caucus: Rep. Ken Buck . as supporting House Republicans’ “governing wing.” It’s another one of the five families. Eleven other Jordan opponents — Reps. Vern Buchanan and Drew Ferguson as well as Bacon, Buck, Garbarino, Gonzales, Granger, Miller-Meeks, Simpson, Stauber and Womack — voted to certify Biden’s victory. Granger, who had covid at the time, did not vote, while Chavez-DeRemer, Ellzey, James, Kiggans, LaLota and Lawler weren’t in Congress at the time.
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