“It is embarrassing that MAGA House Republicans continue to let the petty sniping and infighting in their own party prevent them from working with the president,” President Joe Biden’s campaign said. In what could be the final nail in the coffin of Ohio GOP Congressman Jim Jordan’s speakership bid, U.S. House Republicans on Friday secretly […]
Far-right U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, confronting two failed attempts to garner the support needed to be elected speaker of the House, intends to back a plan to empower Rep. Patrick McHenry—named speaker pro tempore earlier this month—to act as a temporary speaker until at least January 3, according to new reporting on Thursday. The House […]
Nearly two dozen of Jordan’s GOP colleagues opposed him for the leadership role. An aggressive pressure campaign to convince holdouts in the Republican Party to back far-right Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker on Wednesday was unsuccessful, with 22 GOP lawmakers voting against the Ohio congressman in the second round of voting—two more than the […]
“I will vote for Leader Jeffries and continue my work building bridges between marginalized communities to dismantle the systems of white supremacy enabling violence against our communities,” said Rep. Summer Lee. Louisiana GOP Congressman Steve Scalise—infamously accused of once calling himself “David Duke without the baggage,” referring to a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard—on […]