UPDATE (Oct. 17, 2023 1:55 p.m. E.T.): The House has begun voting on Jim Jordan's nomination to be speaker.
Rep. Jim Jordan is an anti-establishment firebrand, one who should have been expelled from the House for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
There’s still no guarantee that he will manage to scrape together the 217 votes he needs to become speaker.
After all, this is the same Jordan whom former Speaker John Boehner, himself an Ohio Republican, described as a “legislative terrorist.”
Jordan received a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee to testify about his role in trying to overturn the election.
This is all to say that there’s a reason Jordan was the speaker candidate who gained Trump’s endorsement.
Trump supports Jordan because he knows Jordan stood by him even though the evidence is clear that he’d lost. »
