Jim Jordan’s third round hopes just went into the gutter
It’s not clear why Jim Jordan went through with this morning’s second round vote for Speaker of the House, knowing he didn’t have the votes. Perhaps he was afraid that if he postponed, it would mean the end of his candidacy. In any case he ended up losing the second round by even more votes than the first round. Now his third round hopes just went into the gutter.
House Republicans just announced that the third round of voting will not take place today, and has instead been kicked to (supposedly) tomorrow. This means that Jordan currently isn’t even close to having the votes.
Now Jim Jordan will spend the evening trying to convince various House Republicans – who clearly hate him – to vote for him tomorrow. But his prospects are clearly getting worse as this goes on. If Jordan thought he could wear the dissenters down simply by holding a bunch of consecutive rounds of voting, that’s what we’d be seeing playing out this afternoon, instead of Jordan pulling back to lick his wounds.
