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for House speaker on a first ballot Tuesday, as an unexpectedly numerous 20 holdouts denied the hard-charging ally of Donald Trump the GOP majority needed to seize the gavel.
“We feel confident,” he said, ducking into a leadership office. “We’ve already talked to some members who are going to vote with us on the second ballot.” “Jim Jordan will be a great speaker,” the former president said outside the courthouse in Manhattan, where he is facing. “I think he’s going to have the votes soon, if not today, over the next day or two.”
One, Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., a leader of the centrists, voted McCarthy, the ousted former speaker. Murmurs rippled through the chamber. Others voted for Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who was the party’s first nominee to replace McCarthy before he, too, was rejected by hardliners last week. Others softened their opposition after Tuesday’s first vote saying they they simply wanted to register their protest, but would be with Jordan on subsequent balloting.
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