Mr Jordan has vowed to trigger multiple rounds of voting in a bid to peel off dissenters
Benefits must keep pace with prices as inflation set to remain over 6.5%, Jeremy Hunt warnedRep. Jim Jordan, the top contender in the race to be the next Speaker of the US House of Representatives, appears to come up short of the number of votes needed to be elected Speaker during the first round who fuelled conspiracy theories about the 2020 election has failed in his first attempt to become Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
To claim the gavel, he will need the support of nearly the entire Republican Party, which holds a narrow 221-212 majority in the House. 217 votes are needed to become Speaker, and Democrats are firmly united behind minority leader Hakeem Jeffries., only got the job in January after 15 rounds of voting amid holdouts by Trump allies – with his party’s fragile majority leaving him walking a political tightrope that ultimately proved his downfall.
His election as House Speaker – second in line to the presidency after the vice-president – would probably prove a major headache for Joe Biden, who has attempted to work with his political foes to pass critical legislation. “Jim Jordan knew more about what Donald Trump had planned for January 6 than any other member of the House of Representatives,” former Republican Representative Liz Cheney, chair of the now-defunct House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot, said in a speech last week. Mr Jordan has denied involvement in the riot.
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