Jim Jordan was working out in the House gym in late November 2018 when Kevin McCarthy called him with a peace offering in the wake of their battle for the GOP conference's top job
Rep. Jim Jordan listens as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to reject two of McCarthy’s selections for the committee investigating the Jan, 6 riots on July 21 in Washington . | Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesJim Jordan was working out in the House gym in late November 2018 when Kevin McCarthy called him with a peace offering in the wake of their battle for the GOP conference's top job.
McCarthy told POLITICO that both men, not to mention the conference writ large, evolved to bring his relationship with Jordan to the current moment: "You adapt. If you don't adapt, you're not gonna get there," he said. That remarkable shift in the two men's dynamic, from rivals for minority leader to partners, explains a lot about why Republicans are oozing with confidence that they can retake the House next fall. Jordan said he expects his good relations with McCarthy to continue if the party retakes the majority and denied any interest in vying for a higher post himself at that time, asserting that it's leadership — not him — who's evolved.
McCarthy and other Republicans saw Jordan’s past machinations against the conference as a byproduct of his exclusion from its inner sanctum. In that vein, his motivations shifted once he was given a seat at the table. Of course, Trump himself played a major role in Jordan's journey from the fringes to the highest ranks of the House GOP. The former presidentthe McCarthy-Jordan leadership race in 2018 to smooth tensions between the two, and Jordan's support of the bombastic Trump is as critical to his rise this Congress as it is to Rep. Liz Cheney's fall.
“He probably wasn't the most popular member in the conference when I arrived four and a half years ago, but I think that he probably is the most popular member of the conference" nowadays, Comer added. "He's the most popular member with the Republican base, there's no question about that." Jordan has "led the charge" among Republicans toward "cult-ish behavior [that's] contributed to profound dysfunctionality and debasement of a proud and major political party," Rep. Gerry Connolly said.
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