UPDATE (10/19/2023 6:17 PM Central): Rep Jim Jordan will pursue a third Speaker vote.* The third vote for Speaker is scheduled for tomorrow (10/20/2023) at 10:00 AM Eastern / 9:00 AM Central.
UPDATE (10/19/2023 4:15 PM Central): A deal to temorarily empower Acting Speaker Patrick McHenry (R-NC) failed, with 6 GOP Reps voting against it. Rep Matt Gaetz reportedly said on the matter “Speaker lite is a bad idea, like Bud Light,” said Rep Matt Gaetz (R-FL).
UPDATE (10/19/2023 2:30 PM Central): There is a deal to empower the temporary Acting Speaker, Rep Patrick McHenry (R-NC), to have the full duties of the Speaker until January 2024. This is announced as Jim Jordan is reportedly not seeking a third vote for now, but he most likely will when the next Speaker election happens in January. This is very controversial, as nothing like this has ever happened before. This makes Patrick McHenry in-practice an actual House Speaker for these next few months.
Yesterday (10/18/2023), the second vote for Speaker of the House took place, and there was no winner. Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) lost more Republicans in the second round than he did in the first. The magical number to become Speaker is 217 votes, and it doesn’t seem like anyone will have that support for a while.
The vote count of the Second Speaker vote was:
Rep Jim Jordan (R) – 199,
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D) – 212,
Other – 20,
Present – 0.
The third vote is expected to happen sometime later today (10/19/2023), however it’s unlikely that any outcome will be reached in the next few rounds of voting.
The entire Democratic caucus in the House is united on electing their Minority Leader to the role of Speaker, that being Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). The Republican conference nominated Rep Jim Jordan for Speaker, however 20 Republicans didn’t vote for said candidate when the vote was on the House floor.
There will most likely have to be compromises between Jim Jordan and the group of Republicans keeping him from office, so that the House can elect a Speaker and get work done.
Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN), Rep Jim Jordan, and a few others have been meeting with the Republicans voting against Jordan to try to make a deal or compromise. This will likely continue for a while before they can agree on who to elect to be Speaker of the House.
Any Republican seeking to get the job must have the votes of the entire Republican conference besides four or less Reps. Any Democrat seeking to get the job would need to have the votes of the entire Democratic caucus, but they would also need 5 Republicans to vote for them, or to vote present.
We will have to see what happens in the following days and weeks. If you want to make sure you always stay up to date, consider following us on Twitter/X @WiscAdvance, where we always post when we release a new article.
Footnote: Our Twitter/X: @WiscAdvance *Source of 6:17 PM 10/19/2023 Update, statement on Jim Jordan: NPR, https://tinyurl.com/2a7paxzx ; The latest updates are always in bold text Article wrote by Alex (@enbyalex9 on Twitter/X), on October 19, 2023. Copyright The Wisconsin Advance
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