Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Can Jim Jordan become top House Republican?


Here's the bottom line. 
America would be much be much better off with Jim Jordon as speaker as opposed to another run of the mill establishment GOPer.
The Hill reports it’s not just conservative hard-liners who are rooting for Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to lead the House GOP conference next year. 

Several members of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the largest caucus on Capitol Hill, told The Hill they’d be open to Jordan as well. 

Most GOP lawmakers don’t believe the conservative ideologue can amass the 218 votes needed to become Speaker on the House floor. There are too many rank-and-file Republicans who still hold a grudge against the former Freedom Caucus chairman for forcing out then-Speaker John Boehner, a fellow Ohio Republican, in 2015 and tormenting his successor, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).


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