2023-10-20 20:14:39
The Republican elected representatives of Congress no longer support Jim Jordan as their majority candidate for the presidency of the House, this Trumpist having suffered his third defeat in four days this Friday to be elected to the perch.
This Friday, the Republicans disavowed an ally of Donald Trump, Jim Jordan, who is no longer the party’s designated candidate for the presidency of the United States House of Representatives, pushing this parliamentary institution ever deeper into crisis. Republican elected officials withdrew their support for Mr. Jordan in a secret ballot and announced that they would meet on Monday to nominate a new candidate for the position of “speaker”.
“We need to come together and determine who our leader will be,” Jim Jordan said following the vote. This member of the most conservative fringe of the party and close to Trump has confirmed that he will not run once more. A few hours before, 25 Republicans had voted once morest the elected official from Ohio, who suffered his third failure in four days to get elected to the roost. The position has been vacant since the historic impeachment of Kevin McCarthy on October 3, following divisions between moderate Republicans and Trumpists.
For almost three weeks, the lower house of the American Congress, supposed to be one of the most powerful parliaments in the world, has not been able to vote on any bill. And this at a time when the American president Joe Biden has just asked Congress for a huge budget extension of more than $105 billion to help allies Israel and Ukraine, stand up to China and respond to migrant arrivals at the country’s southern border. “We are in a very bad situation,” admitted Kevin McCarthy.
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