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Jim Jordan’s Big Day Ends in Chaos and Failure: The Republican nominee for speaker spent his day doing what his predecessor Kevin McCarthy did best—not getting enough votes to win the gavel.

https://newrepublic.com/article/176305/jim-jordan-mccarthy-republican-speaker

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Republicans are on the verge of electing a speaker who's never passed a bill during his 16 years in Congress

https://www.businessinsider.com/jim-jordan-never-had-a-bill-enacted-may-become-speaker-2023-10

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By the way, in case anybody is interested in seeing who votes for whom, the New York Times has an interactive tracker and it doesn’t appear to be behind a paywall.

EDIT: It looks like there might be a paywall for some people after all ☹️

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/10/17/us/politics/house-speaker-vote-tally.html

#USPol #USPolitics #SpeakerElection #SpeakerVote #HouseRepublicans #NewYorkTimes #NYT

Okay I might have hallucinated it, but did I hear Elise Stefanik compare #GymJordan to MOSES in her nomination speech??!

*blinks*

…perhaps I misheard?

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It floors me that Greg Pence has voted in favor of the guy who supports (and is supported by) the guy who wanted to hang his brother. That’s got to make for awkward family get-togethers? 😬

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Turner: If GOP can’t elect Speaker then ‘deal will have to be done’ with Democrats

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4257216-turner-if-gop-cant-elect-speaker-then-deal-will-have-to-be-done-with-democrats/

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