Rep. Jim Jordan is vying for the House speakership through tactics of intimidation against Republican members who haven’t pledged their support for him. One supporter, however, has denounced this strategy as counterproductive. Jordan won the party’s nomination for the position on Friday, but he fell far from the number of votes required for him to be elected by the full House. Since then, his supporters have taken to social media and the media to launch attacks on the approximately 60 holdout members, urging voters to direct their political anger towards them, according to the New York Times.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a GOP member who supports Jordan, criticized this strategy as foolish during his appearance on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, as reported by Politico. He said, “That is the dumbest way to support Jordan. As someone who wants Jim Jordan, the dumbest thing you can do is to continue pissing off those people.” The House will reconvene on Monday, and Jordan has stated that he wants the House to vote on his nomination on Tuesday. He will need 217 votes, which means he can only afford to lose a few GOP members. A senior Republican who opposes Jordan informed CNN that he counts about 40 members who still plan to vote against the nomination. The highest number of votes Jordan received in closed GOP sessions on Friday was 152, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Some of Jordan’s supporters have gone as far as to post the phone numbers of the holdout members online. Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna wrote on X, “You want to explain to your voters why you blocked Jordan? Then bring it.” This technique of Republicans pressuring their fellow Republicans has occasionally proven successful for Donald Trump, who supports Jordan. However, as the Times points out, it is also one of the factors that have contributed to the current situation where Republicans have fielded House candidates who are popular with the Trump base but struggle to secure victory in competitive districts. Crenshaw highlighted that such tactics failed to save Kevin McCarthy’s speakership and said, “Everybody’s got to grow up, get it together. If there are differences, let’s sort them out.” (Read more Jim Jordan stories.)
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