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Representative Jim Jordan and his allies have begun a right-wing pressure campaign against Republicans opposed to electing him speaker, working to unleash the rage of the party’s base voters against any lawmaker standing in the way of his election.
“You want to explain to your voters why you blocked Jordan?” Representative Anna Paulina Luna, Republican of Florida, wrote on X. “Then bring it.”
The strategy is reminiscent of the bullying tactics that Mr. Jordan and his allies have used over the past decade to pull the G.O.P. further to the right, and borrows a page from former President Donald J. Trump, who is backing Mr. Jordan.
It is also an approach that helped propel the House G.O.P. into its current leadership crisis.
Mr. Jordan’s closeness with the former president has given him unparalleled cachet with the party base.
Amy Kremer, a political activist affiliated with the Tea Party movement and Mr. Trump who also leads Women for America First, which organized a “Stop the Steal” rally in 2021, posted a hit list of 12 [GOP House]members on Friday. She listed their office phone numbers and urged her followers to call them and tell them to support Mr. Jordan.
Mr. Jordan’s supporters said his decision to send lawmakers home to their districts over the weekend rather than keeping them in Washington for one-on-one meetings to drum up support was a deliberate move to intensify grass-roots pressure on them to fall into line.
It was unclear whether the pressure campaign would be able to net Mr. Jordan the votes he needed as the second candidate put forth in recent days as the Republican nominee.
Some conservative strategists close to Mr. Jordan believe he will easily be able to win over his detractors, institutionalists who put a high premium on a functioning government and projecting normalcy. Unlike the hard right, the strategists argue, staging a floor revolt simply isn’t in their nature.
Jordan is a traitor that asked for a pardon for his part in fomenting the Jan 6th insurrection. He is a traitor that denies the results of a free and fair election. He is an enabler of sexual abuse. He illegally defied a Congressional subpoena.
Jordan is a clear and present danger to the United States of America and should be treated as such.
Oh boy, a more effective insurrectionist and fascist is taking over. I’m sure this’ll be great for all of us.
his decision to send lawmakers home to their districts over the weekend
Gym Jordan made no decisions. He has no power at this time. He’s just another schmuck representative until and unless the magats decide he can be their whipping boy for a while.
“You want to explain to your voters why you didn’t block Jordan?” would seem to be a more likely question for those in moderate non-batshit-crazy districts.
There are 19 “Biden Republicans” - Republicans who are in districts that Biden won in 2020. If they cater to far right Jordan, they can find themselves losing their next election. On the other hand, Jordan can’t afford to lose more than 5 of them.
I don’t think Jordan is going to be able to drum up all the support he thinks he will.
Agreed. Jordan is less popular than Scalise among Republicans. Scalise couldn’t build a coalition, Jordan sure as hell won’t.
GOP primaries are almost never about courting moderates. Maybe if its an open primary.
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Inb4 somebody takes her up on the bluff. Republicans in Biden districts would rather keep their jobs, I’d wager, than capitulate to Trumpian bullies and support a known pedo protector.
They should just leave a voice-mail that says i won’t support Jim Jordan as he protected a rampant child molester.
Hey Gym how about go fuck yourself
Republicans will always choose the worst candidate.
It’s because every one they have to offer is worse than the rest.
you want to explain to your voters why you blocked Jordan?
You want to explain to your voters why you voted in an insurrectionist, anti-American wankstain of a traitor to be two shits away from the presidency?
Need to split the GOP into two separate parties reflecting their separate platforms. Voters on both sides aren’t able to be represented adequately. Separatist elements, trying to divert their party from within, are causing paralysis in Congress that affects everyone. Speed up the schism and get it over with. It’s required so rebuilding can begin and honest coalitions can start to form. They can’t even caucus together on something as simple as the House speakership without resorting to infighting. They’re not a coherent party.
‘support me, or else…?’
Weird play, but fuck gym Jordan.
Marvellous. What rapes of the US people will he ignore, or perhaps even facilitate?
You mean, besides the coup?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Even after Mr. Jordan, the hard-right Ohio Republican, won his party’s nomination for the post on Friday, he remained far short of the 217 votes he needed to win the gavel, with scores of his colleagues refusing to back him.
lawmakers they count as holdouts, encouraging followers to flood the Capitol switchboard with calls demanding they back Mr. Jordan — or face the wrath of conservative voters as they gear up for primary season.
Republicans last year fielded several extreme-right congressional candidates who were popular with the base but ultimately could not win general elections in competitive districts, leaving them with a razor-thin majority in the House.
Amy Kremer, a political activist affiliated with the Tea Party movement and Mr. Trump who also leads Women for America First, which organized a “Stop the Steal” rally in 2021, posted a hit list of 12 members on Friday.
“Everybody’s going to go home, listen to their constituents, and make a decision,” said Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee, predicting that hearing from the party base would help sway holdouts in Mr. Jordan’s direction.
“I’m a no on allowing Matt Gaetz and the other seven to win by putting their individual in as speaker,” said Representative John Rutherford, referring to his fellow Florida Republican who forced the vote on removing Mr. McCarthy from the speakership, and the G.O.P.
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