Jim Jordan called off a second speaker’s vote Tuesday evening while he scrambled behind the scenes to try to win over 20 Republicans who voted against him earlier in the day.
Jordan has scheduled another vote for speaker for 11 a.m. ET Wednesday, where the Ohio Republican and his allies hope to see his support increase even in the face of entrenched opposition.
The level of GOP opposition to Jordan during Tuesday’s speaker’s vote – held exactly two weeks after the House ousted Kevin McCarthy – was a disappointment for Jordan’s allies who had expressed hopes that the number of holdouts would only be in the single digits.
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.
The U.S. House is pausing to collect itself before launching into a second round of voting on its speaker.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, failed to win enough votes to be elected speaker on the first ballot Tuesday. The House is expected to meet again on Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET.
Jordan and his allies anticipated they could face more than one round of votes, and they are continuing to work to win over the Republicans who remain opposed to Jordan's leadership.
Doug LaMalfa, of California, who voted for McCarthy on the first ballot, said after the vote that he'll back Jordan going forward.
“Kevin McCarthy was taken down for frivolous, unproductive reasons. We had a good thing going this year in doing House business, yet a handful of folks were able to take it all down because they didn’t get 100% of what they wanted,” he wrote in a statement on X.
“They have nominated an insurrectionist and the architect of a prior government shutdown,” Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, said on Friday. “This is a man who literally and figuratively has tried to burn this place down. I am stunned and profoundly disappointed.”
The House was in recess as of Tuesday afternoon. It’s not immediately clear when the next vote would take place. Granger urged Speaker Pro Tempore Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., to hold another vote.
"The House needs to get back to work now," Granger posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, without saying who she would vote for.
Jordan supporter and Texas Rep. Monica De La Cruz of Edinburg also expressed frustration in an X post: "Here we go… AGAIN…
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