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Jim Jordan still facing at least "10 to 20" holdouts as speaker vote looms, Republicans say (www.cbsnews.com)

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Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, still faces an uphill climb to the House speakership, with at least 10 to 20 Republican members who oppose his nomination, CBS News has learned, based on background conversations over the weekend with six key House Republicans and more than a dozen sources familiar with the deliberations.

"At least 10 to 20," one of the House Republicans told CBS News on Sunday, while another added that that Jordan's support has grown incrementally in recent days but remains soft.

While Jordan's confidants remain optimistic that he can get to the necessary 217 votes Tuesday, when the House is scheduled to bring a vote to the floor, several who are more critical of Jordan privately insisted this weekend that at about a dozen Republicans remain unwilling to support him, due to their frustrations over how Rep. Steve Scalise, Republican of Louisiana, was treated during his speaker bid and their simmering anger over the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. They also are wary of whether Jordan can handle the intensity of the challenges facing Congress in the coming months.

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[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 114 points 11 months ago

If he's down to needing "only" 10-20 holdouts, he's actually gaining significant ground. This should worry you.

The moderates of the party are simply growing tired of all of this and are more likely to vote for him simply because there are no other viable options. The problems with this are: Jim Jordan becomes speaker of the House. The MAGA wing gets rewarded for causing this mess by having one of their own elected speaker once the dust settles, emboldening them to do it again in the future. And it also reinforces how effective the strategy of forcing people out of office by making the position untenable for anyone who actually wants to do the work, leaving only the crazies to fill the void is.

My only real hope is that Jim Jordan is incompetent enough and so hyper-focused on partisan grievance politics that he won't cause too much damage. That, and he only has just over a year in office. The bad thing is that if you think these people are crazy, remember that they're simply paving the way for those who will come after them, many of which are even crazier than they are.

[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 33 points 11 months ago

I imagine quite a few Republicans are still pissed about McCarthy. So those 10-20 holdouts might be more "Durable" then people think. I don't mean untouchable mind you, just that pride can be a multiplicative factor....

It is not impossible, but 20 people is a lot of concessions before the tomorrow vote.

I imagine defense contractors and military are anxious to get into Israel and Ukraine funding back on track. Which might be creating more social pressure on the back end in the US.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

As one of those partisan grievance issues, I’m terrified of that possibility

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[-] rifugee@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Completely unrelated, why do you put 3 spaces between sentences? I don't think I have seen that before. To be clear, I'm not criticizing or anything, just curious.

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I'm probably a wee bit older than you. Back when I was learning to type (on clangy old typewriters), that was the standard.

[-] rifugee@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Interesting. I learned to type on a typewriter too, but we did double spaces. I think it was the last year they used typewriters for the class, though, so it probably still comes down to an evolution of standards over the years. Thanks for the answer!

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[-] Wilmo@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago

As an Ohioan myself. Fuck Gym Jordan. He shouldn't be allowed to hold a government position.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah his actions at OSU should’ve disqualified him before he opened his mouth

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago

The leading GOP nominee for Speaker is 10-20 votes away (at best).

The leading Democratic nominee for Speaker is 5 votes away.

I can't help thinking there should be a built-in way to bypass this obvious deadlock. Maybe the Parliamentarian should come up with something.

[-] Unaware7013@kbin.social 25 points 11 months ago

If they do, I can almost guarantee it will favor the Republicans like it generally does.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

They do indeed know how to manipulate the system.

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[-] iamnotdave@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

Is he literally the nominee because no one else wants it?

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 19 points 11 months ago

He's also one of the biggest fucking clowns there... I can't stand watching any committee/hearing/investigation he's on...

Of all the people, how do we always end up with the worst...

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Of all the people, how do we always end up with the worst…

Because the GOP have mastered the strategy of using threats, violence, and intimidation to make positions of authority untenable for those who are actually interested in governing and putting in the work, leaving behind only the authoritarian wannabes to fill the void.

Jordan is here because the MAGA wing have successfully intimidated the rest of the party into submission, to the point where no "sane" republican would go within a mile of that gavel even if they were wearing a hazmat suit.

[-] TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Any R with remaining moderate leanings is worried about being primaried by a Freedom Caucus type. This threat is how desantis has gotten the Florida legislature to do anything he wants.

[-] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Of all the people, how do we always end up with the worst...

We have yet to see the worst, unfortunately. If there's 1 thing I've learned about the GOP, it's that they can always reach into their bottomless pit of depravity to pull out an even bigger degenerate.

Remember when people thought it couldn't get any worse than Bush/Cheney? Oh how wrong we were.

[-] Astroturfed@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

It would seem so. I think it's more like "everyone else knows they can't get the votes" though. There's going to be enough that don't want to give in to the MAGA extremists holding the party hostage and there's enough MAGA extremists to stop anyone halfway same from being elected speaker.

I have no idea how this fuckwit thinks he's going to get the votes. 10 to 20 seems extremely low. I bet the vote ends up more like 80-100 short.

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I have no idea how this fuckwit thinks he’s going to get the votes. 10 to 20 seems extremely low. I bet the vote ends up more like 80-100 short.

I'd like to think so, but all indications are that they are falling in line behind Jordan. My guess is that this is mostly out of fatigue and the fact that none of the "sane moderates" are willing to take the position. Jordan will probably be speaker by the end of tomorrow.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Gym Jordan probably ticks off enough of the magoos' check boxes. I'm not sure he was even qualified to be a coach, but he knows how to suck up to the crazies, that's for sure. And that's assuming he's not as bugfuck crazy as they are...

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

What a colossal shift right we are when Jordan makes McCarthy makes Ryan makes Boehner look moderate...

This country feels so fucked.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Republicans really are fucking themselves, and the country, over with catering to the extreme wing of their party. They've spent decades building their own alternative news bubble, which they've used to brainwash millions of people into thinking that all Democrats are pedophiles, while Trump is their lord and savior. As a result, any sane Republican in Congress would be absolutely vilified if they make an attempt and compromise with Democrats to reach a solution that puts anyone but a MAGA extremist in charge.

Honestly, it's kind of scary how something like 7 or 8 far right Congressmen are able to wield so much power and bend the rest of the Republican party to their will. I'll Godwin's Law myself here by pointing out that Nazis had 12 seats in the German government in 1928, but were able to use that influence to grow to 107 seats in 1930 and 230 seats in 1932, becoming their largest political party.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

But here's the thing: there are no moderate Republicans left. The last 2 were primaried last cycle. The solution to this is so fucking simple if there were true moderates, too. "Moderate" Republicans would just partner with Dems to sidestep the crazies while getting points with the public in "getting the government back to work."

But the reality is these maga fellas are simply the fall-guys for floating test balloons before the rest of the party fully commits. Seems quite clear that's what is happening to me.

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Godwin's Law is dead. The GOP killed it when they openly courted Nazis.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Godwin himself said to feel free to use it when applied to Trump.

If still in doubt, the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor said the same.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 11 months ago

So he needs to groom 10 to 20 people in an organization that he wants to oversee?

We're in trouble. This is his wheelhouse.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I see what you did there

[-] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago

“Moderate” Republicans will cave. They’ll kneel to MAGA. None of the these “moderates” have a spine.

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/16/jim-jordan-house-speaker-endorsements

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Money it's more like 75.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

The problem, though, is that Jim is a spiteful and vengeful person, and so are the extreme Right in general. A lot of Republicans are getting in line simply because they don't want the stochastic terrorism directed at them.

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

This will just make public the horrible charges against him related to his time at Ohio State.

Before entering politics, Jordan was an assistant OSU wrestling coach from 1986 to 1994. Former athletes have said he ignored rampant sexual abuse by Richard Strauss, a team doctor who died in 2005. Jordan has long denied helping orchestrate a cover-up.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Do you really think Republicans care? This isn't even the first time they have nominated a wrestling coach / pedo enabler for Speaker.

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Heck they even had a pedo president! Need I remind anyone of Trump's creepy comments about his own daughter?

[-] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 11 months ago

Their god literally bragged about sexually assaulting women, creeping on children changing, and wanting to fuck his daughter.

Idk why anyone thinks the GOP and Republicans as a whole find abhorrent behavior a deal breaker.

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

It's our job to make them care. Republicans will do everything they can to ignore it.

[-] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 11 months ago

Dude, they came out in record numbers to vote for a person who actively bragged about being an abhorrent monster. They're never going to care as long as the person has an R next to their name, unless we suddenly find a few million cult deprogrammers.

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They just shrug their shoulders when an entire classroom of children is executed. They don't care about anything but power.

[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago

Only 10-20 or twenty R's support the constitution? I shouldn't be surprised.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They'll have a few rounds of voting with negotiations in between and they'll fall in line. Welcome to America where even the biggest far-right asshats can now become Speaker of the House.

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

This is all performative. Don't think for a second that those 10-20 give a shit about the rule of law or common decency - it's theater. They are in districts where they have constituents that need them to feign a bit of a "moral block", to really scratch their chins for a moment and come to the eventual conclusion that, "the people just can't wait any longer, I guess I have to vote for gym Jordan - you understand, grandma"

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Is the whole "holdout as personal leverage against my own party" going to be a new trend? Seems like it elevates oneself at the expense of everyone else.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The next Speaker is going to be an insurrection and a traitor to the Republic. 2nd in line to the President.

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