2023-10-13 21:03:30
– Jim Jordan, Republican candidate for speaker
Jim Jordan, one of the tenor Trumpists, was named the Republican candidate for the presidency of the House of Representatives on Friday in an internal vote, according to the party.
Published today at 11:03 p.m. Updated 40 minutes ago
U.S. Representative Jim Jordan in Washington, DC, October 13, 2023.
AFP
The House of Representatives, controlled by the Republicans unlike the Senate with a Democratic majority, has been almost paralyzed since the surprise dismissal on October 3 of its “speaker” Kevin McCarthy, who exposed the gaping fractures of the party, one year before the presidential election of 2024.
This is the second vote this week within the parliamentary group, torn between moderate elected officials and troublemakers gravitating in the orbit of former President Donald Trump.
Supported by Trump
The previous one, Tuesday, was narrowly won by Steve Scalise, leader of the Republican majority in the House and elected from Louisiana (southeast), over Jim Jordan, supported in particular by Donald Trump. But Steve Scalise announced Thursday evening that he was abandoning his candidacy, unable to gather enough votes to be elected “speaker”.
Jim Jordan beat Austin Scott, another member of the conservative wing of the party, in a secret ballot on Friday. He received 124 votes against 81 for his opponent, according to American media.
Although defending fairly similar conservative positions, the two men dissociated themselves during the vote on the certification of the election of Democratic President Joe Biden in 2020, vehemently contested by Donald Trump: Jim Jordan had voted against the validation of the results and Austin Scott for.
A vote by the entire House of Representatives is not expected on Friday, with many elected officials from both parties having left Washington.
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