Jim Jordan says he will seek third vote and not planning to drop out of House speaker race – live

Jim Jordan said that he plans to seek a third vote and has no plans of pulling out the House speaker race.

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Speaking to reporters after tense closed-door meetings with other Republicans, Jordan said:

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“I’m still running for speaker and I plan to go to the floor and get the vote and win this race.”

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He added that he plans to speak with the 20 Republicans who voted against him to secure their support.

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In attempts to buy time for a third round of votes for his own speakership, Jordan has thrown his support behind expanding House speaker pro tempore’s powers. The current interim House speaker is North Carolina’s Patrick McHenry.

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Jordan’s decision to support McHenry’s interim speaker position has spurred mixed reactions, with Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene calling it “the wrong thing to do.”

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Republican Matt Gaetz echoed similar sentiments, saying, “We need to stay here until we elect a speaker.”

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Meanwhile, Democrat Jared Moskowitz hailed the decision, saying, “If there is a bipartisan deal to empower the pro-Temp, which I’m a favor of, I want to see the details of course first.”

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Steve Scalise, the majority leader of the House of Representatives, is reported to be opposed to the resolution to empower a temporary speaker.

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“I’d rather us focus on getting a speaker elected,” Scalise is reported to have said, according to Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman.

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🚨🚨NEWS — SCALISE says he’s opposed to the resolution to empower a temporary speaker.

SCALISE: “I’d rather us focus on getting a speaker elected.”

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 19, 2023

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The closed-door GOP meeting is reported to be fairly tense.

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According to CNN’s Melanie Zanona, sources said that Florida representative Matt Gaetz was told to sit down by former House speaker Kevin McCarthy and refused.

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“Then Rep. [Michael] Bost ‘got all emotional’ and ‘was cussing at him’ and ‘telling him it’s all his fault,’ one member said,” Zanona added.

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THINGS not going so great in GOP conference, which turned heated, I’m told.

At one point, Gaetz was told to sit down by McCarthy and refused, then Rep. Bost “got all emotional” and “was cussing at him” and “telling him it’s all his fault,” one member said.

— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) October 19, 2023

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She also reported that other Republicans are reportedly furious over Jim Jordan supporting the resolution to expand House speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry’s powers, with some claiming that it is a self-serving move.

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Other Republicans stood up and expressed fury over Jordan for backing the empowering McHenry resolution, and suggested it was a self serving move. Some members encouraged him to drop out of speaker’s race.

— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) October 19, 2023

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican representative from Georgia, has criticized Jim Jordan’s reported decision to throw his support behind the House’s temporary speaker Patrick McHenry.

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“I think that’s the wrong thing to do. [Jordan] wants to do that while he continues talking to people and finding a path. I completely disagree. I think we should all be able to find a path in that room right there and that requires putting the egos down. It requires humility,” said Greene.

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Rep. MTG (R-GA) says Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) reported decision to back empowering Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) as a “short-term” House Speaker is “the wrong thing to do”:

“We should all be able to find a path in that room right there, and that requires putting the egos down.” pic.twitter.com/x5MjIrULHV

— The Recount (@therecount) October 19, 2023

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Here are some responses from House representatives over Jim Jordan’s reported decision to throw his support behind House speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry:

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“I’m against ‘Speaker Light.’ I’m against Bud Light. I believe it is a constitutional desecration to not elect a speaker of the House. We need to stay here until we elect a speaker,” said Florida’s representative Matt Gaetz.

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“Twisting and torturing the Constitution to empower a temporary speaker is having a ‘Speaker Light.’ That is not constitutionally contemplated, is deeply infirm, and I will do everything possible to stop it,” he added.

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“I’m against ‘Speaker Light.’ I’m against Bud Light. I believe it is a constitutional desecration to not elect a Speaker of the House. We need to stay here until we elect a Speaker.”

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on possibility of Rep. McHenry (R-NC) becoming permanent acting Speaker pic.twitter.com/QcyORZszkb

— The Recount (@therecount) October 19, 2023

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Jared Moskowitz, Florida’s Democratic representative, told MSNBC that he is in favor of empowering McHenry as acting speaker, saying:

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“If there is a bipartisan deal to empower the pro-Temp, which I’m a favor of, I want to see the details of course first. I’m in favor of to get the House open, to pass an Israel pact, to aid Ukraine, to do the people’s work here in the US Congress.

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It’s gonna have to be a bipartisan path forward, should Democrats empower the Pro-Temp, and all of a sudden we go back to the way it was and that deal is gonna fall apart.”

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Rep. Moskowitz (D-FL) says he’s in favor of a deal to empower Rep. McHenry (R-NC) as acting Speaker:

“It’s gonna have to be a bipartisan path forward, should Democrats empower the Pro-Temp, and all of a sudden we go back to the way it was and that deal is gonna fall apart.” pic.twitter.com/4tc2suU0M5

— The Recount (@therecount) October 19, 2023

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As the Israel-Hamas war intensifies, Muslim groups across the US are warning that the inflammatory rhetoric coming from Republican politicians threatens the safety of Arab Americans.

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The Guardian’s Chris McGreal reports:

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Muslim groups in the US have warned the outpouring of extreme language is threatening the safety of Arab Americans following the killing of a six-year-old boy and the wounding of his mother by their landlord in Illinois in an apparent hate crime prompted by the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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The police said Joseph Czuba stabbed the boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, to death after entering their apartment and shouting: “You Muslims must die!”.

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Some politicians have also spoken out against inciting language, including the Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen.

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“We must call out Hamas for the evil that it is. But those seeking to use this moment to demonize & dehumanize all Palestinians & Muslims are complicit in the deaths of innocents like the brutal hate killing of this six-year-old Palestinian-American boy, stabbed to death in Chicago,” he said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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For the full story, click here:

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Jim Jordan has informed Republicans that he will suspend his bid for House speakership and will support Republican Patrick McHenry to assume the role temporarily, a lawmaker said on Thursday, Reuters reports.

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In response to a question of what he expected as he entered another closed-door meeting with other Republicans, Jordan replied: “I’m not going to know until I talk to my colleagues.”

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In that meeting, Jordan said he would not seek a third vote to win the post and instead will back a plan to empower McHenry to hold the post until January, according to Republican representative Jim Banks.

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McHenry is currently serving as acting speaker.

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A handful of Democrats and Republicans alike have called on McHenry’s speaker pro tempore’s powers to be expanded so the House could resume its business.

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Jim Jordan is reported to not hold a third round of votes for his House speakership candidacy.

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According to Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman, Jordan, who has lost two rounds of votes already, will support North Carolina’s Patrick McHenry as interim speaker until January.

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NEWS — JIM JORDAN will not hold a third ballot for speaker. He will back PATRICK MCHENRY as an interim speaker until JANUARY.

MCCARTHY, MCHENRY, JORDAN, COLE and EMMER met this morning

We reported this this AM in @PunchbowlNews AM.

CONFERENCE STARTING NOW.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 19, 2023

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President Joe Biden is set to deliver a primetime address tonight at 8pm ET in which he will discuss the US response to the wars between Israel and Hamas, as well as Ukraine and Russia.

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Biden’s remarks follow a brief visit to Tel Aviv in which he met with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the visit, Biden pledged support for Israel in its fight against Hamas but cautioned Israel to not be “consumed by rage.”

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He also urged Israel to “not repeat” the same mistakes the US made after 9/11.

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Biden’s speech comes as the House of Representatives remain in a weeks-long limbo as Republicans continue to struggle to decide on a speaker.

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With the House essentially paralyzed and unable to pass legislation, Biden is expected to face hurdles in his likely additional requests for funds for both wars.

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Speaking of Biden’s upcoming address, deputy national security adviser Jon Finer told MSNBC:

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“This will also be very much a message to the American people: how those conflicts connect to our lives back here, how support from the American people and the Congress, frankly, is essential.”

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Here is Sidney Powell’s waiver of indictment which she signed on Thursday:

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ALERT: Sidney Powell is pleading guilty in Fulton County, Georgia criminal case pic.twitter.com/asu2bWPQNr

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) October 19, 2023

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“I understand that I may enter a plea and be tried on this accusation according to the same rules of substantive and procedural laws relating to defendants who have been indicted by a grand jury,” the waiver said.

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Powell was set to go on trial alongside lawyer Kenneth Chesebro who faces seven counts after allegedly participating in a widespread attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia.

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With Powell pleading guilty, Chesebro is set to go on trial by himself. On Thursday, ABC reported that Chesebro rejected a plea deal from prosecutors, according to sources with familiar knowledge.

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Former Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell is taking a plea agreement in Georgia’s Fulton county and will plead guilty in the Georgia election subversion case.

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BREAKING: Fmr Trump lawyer Sidney Powell is taking a plea agreement in Fulton County and will guilty, just days before jury selection was scheduled to start

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) October 19, 2023

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Powell’s guilty plea to six counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference with performance of election duties in the Georgia case comes a day before her trial was set to begin.

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Powell will get six years’ probation, a $6,000 fine, $2,700 restitution to the state of Georgia, writing an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia and to testify truthfully at trial, the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell reports.

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With the House in its weeks-long gridlock, there are increasing calls from across the aisle to expand the powers of the chamber’s acting speaker, North Carolina’s Patrick McHenry.

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Oregon’s Republican representative Lori Chavez-DeRemer (who opposes Jim Jordan), tweeted:

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“It’s time to empower the speaker pro tempore. The Republican conference is still deeply divided. While we continue working on finding a consensus candidate for speaker…we must resume the business of governing.”

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I fully support empowering the Speaker Pro Tempore ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/41AxtFY5xD

— Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (@RepLCD) October 18, 2023

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On Monday, Pennsylvania’s Republican representative Mike Kelly introduced a resolution that would allow the House to expand the speaker pro tempore’s power, saying:

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“By electing Representative McHenry as Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives, the House will be able to hold votes necessary to fund the government beyond the expiration of our current fiscal year.”

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Centrist Democrats from the Blue Dog Coalition have also voiced support for expanding McHenry’s powers at “15 calendar day increments”.

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Meanwhile, Democrats are continuing to push the message that Republicans’ inability to work together to elect a speaker is a sign of the party’s incompetence ahead of a big election year.

DNC spokesperson Sarafina Chitika wrote:

Today, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution affirming their support for Israel, President Biden returned from Israel and is preparing to address the nation, and House Democrats stand ready to get back to work. All of the adults are in the room working, except for House Republicans who are – literally – cursing at one another and fighting among themselves. It’s time for the House GOP to grow up, pull themselves together, and join Democrats in working for the American people.

In an interview with CNN, hard-right congressman Matt Gaetz, who started the push to oust former speaker Kevin McCarthy, said “This is how its supposed to be, and it’s not clearn and its not orderly… I don’t seem to mind it too much.”

CNN’s Manu Raju asked Gaetz what he got out of removing McCarthy, he said, “We’re shaking up Washington, DC.”

White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates has urged Republicans to “get their act together” amid their “self-inflected, extreme chaos.”

In a memo released on Thursday, Bates said:

“The House GOP’s backbiting and competition to out-extreme each other is also surfacing hardline positions that the American people have solidly rejected again and again. Including dangerous conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, radical abortion bans, and cuts to Medicare and Social Security…

As president Biden acts to make America more secure, grow our economy for the middle class, and protect our freedoms, House Republicans are falling over one another to find out who can be the most erratic and out of step with the priorites of working families.

They need to get their act together and join this president at the adults table.”

In a new interview with CNN, Democrat representative Nancy Pelosi said that “you have to make him speaker,” referring to interm House speaker Patrick McHenry.

Speaking to CNN’s Dana Bash, Pelosi said:

“From a standpoint of the speakership, you really cannot give Mr. McHenry power. Someone suggested, well, just let him do this and let him do that. No, you have to make him speaker, and then he has the awesome power of the speakership.

Question is, for how long, the longevity of it? My hearing is that it will be to the end of this session, so until the end of the year. Secondly, what is the legislative scope of it? What does it contain? And third is the structure. Do they do anything about the motion to vacate or what we do about motions, other motions on the floor?

So it’s substance. It’s timing. It’s structure. It’ll be up to Hakeem, and we all have confidence in him,” she added.

Jim Jordan said that he plans to seek a third vote and has no plans of pulling out the House speaker race.

Speaking to reporters after tense closed-door meetings with other Republicans, Jordan said:

“I’m still running for speaker and I plan to go to the floor and get the vote and win this race.”

He added that he plans to speak with the 20 Republicans who voted against him to secure their support.

In attempts to buy time for a third round of votes for his own speakership, Jordan has thrown his support behind expanding House speaker pro tempore’s powers. The current interim House speaker is North Carolina’s Patrick McHenry.

Jordan’s decision to support McHenry’s interim speaker position has spurred mixed reactions, with Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene calling it “the wrong thing to do.”

Republican Matt Gaetz echoed similar sentiments, saying, “We need to stay here until we elect a speaker.”

Meanwhile, Democrat Jared Moskowitz hailed the decision, saying, “If there is a bipartisan deal to empower the pro-Temp, which I’m a favor of, I want to see the details of course first.”

Here is video of Jim Jordan telling reporters that he made a “pitch” in attempts to “lower the temperature” by throwing his support behind the House speaker pro temporare.

“We decided that wasn’t where we’re going to go. I’m still running for Speaker, and I plan to go to the floor and get the votes and win this race. But I want to a few of my colleauges. Particularly I want to talk with the 20 individuals who voted against me,” said Jordan.

Additionally, Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman reports that Jordan said that he expects another speaker vote and added that he wants to meet with the 20 Republicans who voted against him.

It remains unclear when the next round of votes would be.

Sherman also reports that House majority whip Tom Emmer as well as House majority leader Steve Scalise are curently opposed on the idea to elect a temporary speaker.

Commenting on the Patrick McHenry House resolution that is set to expand the chamber’s speaker pro tempore’s powers, Jim Jordan is reported to have said:

We made the pitch to members on the resolution as a way to lower the temperature and get back to work. We decided that wasn’t where we’re gonna go. I’m still running for speaker and I plan to go the floor and get the votes and win this race.”

Steve Scalise, the majority leader of the House of Representatives, is reported to be opposed to the resolution to empower a temporary speaker.

“I’d rather us focus on getting a speaker elected,” Scalise is reported to have said, according to Punchbowl News’s Jake Sherman.

The closed-door GOP meeting is reported to be fairly tense.

According to CNN’s Melanie Zanona, sources said that Florida representative Matt Gaetz was told to sit down by former House speaker Kevin McCarthy and refused.

“Then Rep. [Michael] Bost ‘got all emotional’ and ‘was cussing at him’ and ‘telling him it’s all his fault,’ one member said,” Zanona added.

She also reported that other Republicans are reportedly furious over Jim Jordan supporting the resolution to expand House speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry’s powers, with some claiming that it is a self-serving move.

Dan Newhouse, a Republican representative from Washington, said “We need a reset” upon being asked by CNN’s Manu Raju whether Jim Jordan should stay as House speaker nominee.

Raju also reports that in a closed-door meeting, a handful of Republicans urged Jordan to drop his speakership bid but he is not yielding, according to several sources.