Republicans nominate Jim Jordan to be next House speaker after Scalise dropped out
While the Donald Trump-backed Republican got nominated for Speaker of the House in a private vote, it's not clear whether he has enough votes to secure a win.
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Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has received the nomination for the Speaker of the House from Republicans in the House of Representatives.
NBC News is reporting that the Donald Trump-backed Republican will now progress to the next steps of the process.
It was clear that Jordan was going to receive the nomination after Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) dropped out of the race.
However, it remains unclear if he has enough votes to secure a win.
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According to the outlet, Jordan was up against Austin Scott (R-Georgia) after Scalise dropped out of the race.
When Scott found out that Jordan was nominated by his party, he congratulated his opponent.
"I highly respect Jim Jordan. He is an asset to the Republican Party and our nominee for Speaker," Scott said in a post on Twitter. "Our conference has spoken, and now we must unite behind Jordan so we can get Congress back to work."
On the other end of the aisle, Democrats are backing Hakeem Jeffries, but this nomination is more of a formality, as the Democrats aren't projected to have enough votes to secure Jeffries' nomination to the post.
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Jeffries, meanwhile, is not exactly a fan of Jim Jordan, and blasted both him and the Republican party for the nomination.
He called Jordan "the chairman of the chaos caucus, a defender in a dangerous way of dysfunction, and an extremist extraordinaire.”
“House Republicans now have a choice," he said, adding that there "are only two paths forward."
"On the one hand, House Republicans continue to triple down on the chaos, the dysfunction and the extremism that has been visited upon the American people as a result of the House Republicans civil war," Jeffries said. "On the other hand, traditional Republicans can break away from the extremism, partner with Democrats on an enlightened bipartisan path forward so we can end the recklessness and get back to doing the business of the American people.”
