{"id":56031,"date":"2023-10-16T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T00:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56031"},"modified":"2023-10-16T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T00:01:49","slug":"jim-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56031","title":{"rendered":"‘Speaker’ Jordan? Hah!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jim Jordan is mining for votes among his U.S. House colleagues, who he wants to lead as the next speaker of the House.<\/p>\n

To say he faces a major fight is to be guilty of gross understatement. Republicans nominated him to run for the speakership, but he got only 130-something votes. He needs 217 votes among House members to take the gavel. Where does he get them?<\/p>\n

Jordan is a MAGA minion. He is a no-compromise hardliner. Democrats signing up? Hah! Establishment Republicans? Even more laughter!<\/p>\n

The House Republican caucus is deeply divided. We have the MAGA clowns and those who oppose them. If Jordan were to broker a deal with Democrats, that would seem to doom any chance he has to win all the far-right votes he would need to take the gavel.<\/p>\n

What’s more, and this is important, the very idea that a man who stood with Donald J. Trump on 1\/6 and who has consistently cast aspersions on the results of the 2020 presidential election could then ascend to the third spot in presidential succession simply boggles my noggin.<\/p>\n

Does Jim Jordan face a steep hill on his way to the speakership?<\/p>\n

You bet he does … and he should.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Jim Jordan is mining for votes among his U.S. House colleagues, who he wants to lead as the next speaker of the House. To say he faces a major fight is to be guilty of gross understatement. Republicans nominated him to run for the speakership, but he got only 130-something votes. He needs 217 votes … Continue reading ‘Speaker’ Jordan? Hah!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9755,10073,7864,7419],"class_list":["post-56031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-1-6","tag-election-denial","tag-jim-jordan","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56033,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56031\/revisions\/56033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}