Cleveland.com Article RatingJim Jordan backs plan to empower temporary speaker while he seeks votes to get the job permanently
Oct 19, 2023 View Original Article
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| "He supports an extreme agenda and is hell bent on baing abortion nationwide, gutting Medicare, gutting Social Security and giving cover to January 6 attackers." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Jordan's supporters, like Miami County Republican Warren Davidson, who sat beside him on the House floor during each day's speaker votes, argue he's the right person to unite House Republicans because of his proven track record of growing our majority, fighting for border security, and reigning in President Joe Biden's administration." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "By empowering Patrick McHenry as Speaker Pro Tempore, we can take care of our ally Israel until a new Speaker is elected." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "The idea is that we don't paralyze the house and give Jordan more time to get the votes, said a source familiar with Jordan's plans." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The idea is that we don't paralyze the house and give Jordan more time to get the votes, said a source familiar with Jordan's plans." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "As the Champaign County Republican has been attempting to secure enough votes from colleagues to become speaker, a faction of Republicans led by U.S. Rep. Dave Joyce have floated the idea of empowering North Carolina's McHenry to allow consideration of necessary legislation like spending bills needed to avert government shutdowns." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat, on Wednesday said that Jordan should think of the country, and drop out after multiple failures so Congress can get back to business." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a Toledo Democrat, on Wednesday said that Jordan should think of the country, and drop out after multiple failures so Congress can get back to business." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Jordan aounced his candidacy for speaker the day after McCarthy's ouster." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Jordan is one of the most polarizing figures in Congress." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The speaker of the House must be a legislator and the gentleman from Ohio falls short in that regard, California Democrat Pete Aguilar said on the House floor Wednesday as he nominated the Democrats' candidate, Hakeem Jeffries." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The speaker of the House must be a legislator and the gentleman from Ohio falls short in that regard, California Democrat Pete Aguilar said on the House floor Wednesday as he nominated the Democrats' candidate, Hakeem Jeffries." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "It's time for Rep. Jordan to understand this race is over, said Rutherford." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "It's time for Rep. Jordan to understand this race is over, said Rutherford." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "He didn't even come to the retirement party for Rob Portman, said Kaptur." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "He didn't even come to the retirement party for Rob Portman, said Kaptur." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "WASHINGTON, D. C. - House speaker candidate Jim Jordan on Thursday decided to take a break from a series of votes on the House of Representatives floor where couldn't nail down enough support to win the job and instead endorse temporarily giving Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry power to move legislation through the House of Representatives." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "WASHINGTON, D. C. - House speaker candidate Jim Jordan on Thursday decided to take a break from a series of votes on the House of Representatives floor where couldn't nail down enough support to win the job and instead endorse temporarily giving Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry power to move legislation through the House of Representatives." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Jordan can afford to lose just four Republican votes to capture the 217 needed to win the job because the GOP's narrow margin of control over the House." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "It takes a spine of steel to do this job, Oklahoma's Tom Cole said in a Wednesday floor speech nominating Jordan for the post." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "It takes a spine of steel to do this job, Oklahoma's Tom Cole said in a Wednesday floor speech nominating Jordan for the post." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The House of Representatives has lacked a speaker since Oct. 3, when eight Republicans led by Florida's Matt Gaetz - a longtime Jordan ally - united with Democrats in a vote to remove California's McCarthy from the post." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Jordan made a second run for the job when Scalise dropped out, pitching himself as the only one who could unite fractured House Republicans." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "He was tapped to lead a committee investigating weaponization of the federal government, and he was to have a prominent role in a Republican-backed impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Jordan's supporters, like Miami County Republican Warren Davidson, who sat beside him on the House floor during each day's speaker votes, argue he's the right person to unite House Republicans because of his proven track record of growing our majority, fighting for border security, and reigning in President Joe Biden's administration." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Jordan's supporters, like Miami County Republican Warren Davidson, who sat beside him on the House floor during each day's speaker votes, argue he's the right person to unite House Republicans because of his proven track record of growing our majority, fighting for border security, and reigning in President Joe Biden's administration." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Jordan's supporters, like Miami County Republican Warren Davidson, who sat beside him on the House floor during each day's speaker votes, argue he's the right person to unite House Republicans because of his proven track record of growing our majority, fighting for border security, and reigning in President Joe Biden's administration." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "She said Jordan hasn't passed a single bill in all his years in Congress and has repeatedly opposed bills that were Ohio priorities, such as farm bills, those to promote ethanol, and the Butch Lewis Act that shored up failing multi-employer pensions." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "You can't play a game where I'm the only guy playing by the rules, and the other guy is not, Bacon said." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Florida's John Rutherford, who repeatedly voted against Jordan, released a statement Wednesday night that called for his party to find a consensus candidate for speaker instead of Jordan." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Right wing media figures encouraged their followers to contact perceived holdouts in an effort to convince them that opposing Jordan might enrage the MAGA base and trigger a primary challenger." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The House of Representatives will likely have to vote on the proposal to empower McHenry, and some of Jordan's supporters dismissed the concept in interviews on Wednesday.Texan Chip Roy told reporters doing so would violate the Constitution, and amount to playing games with a position that's second in line to the presidency." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "The House of Representatives will likely have to vote on the proposal to empower McHenry, and some of Jordan's supporters dismissed the concept in interviews on Wednesday.Texan Chip Roy told reporters doing so would violate the Constitution, and amount to playing games with a position that's second in line to the presidency." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Those committee posts and his staunch defense of former President Donald Trump over the years have made Jordan a hard-right favorite but a lightning rod for Democrats." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Jordan's critics describe him as a bomb-thrower who has never authored a bill that became law and wouldn't be good at a job that requires governing and coalition building." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Jordan responded with his own post that condemning threats against colleagues, and urging a halt." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Rep. Jordan is fiddling while the world is on fire." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "One thing I caot stomach or support is a bully, said Miller-Meeks, urging her party to find a consensus candidate so we can get back to the work forwarding appropriations, supporting Israel, and stopping the insane policies of the Biden administration." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "One thing I caot stomach or support is a bully, said Miller-Meeks, urging her party to find a consensus candidate so we can get back to the work forwarding appropriations, supporting Israel, and stopping the insane policies of the Biden administration." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Jordan opponent Don Bacon of Nebraska told CNN that Jordan is done and needs to withdraw." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Jordan opponent Don Bacon of Nebraska told CNN that Jordan is done and needs to withdraw." | Negative | -44% Liberal |
| "Jordan did not support Gaetz's effort and voted to keep McCarthy." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "Jordan did not support Gaetz's effort and voted to keep McCarthy." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "U.S. Rep. Mariaette Miller-Meeks of Iowa said on social media that she'd received credible death threats and a barrage of threatening calls that she reported to authorities since voting for Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger of Texas instead of Jordan on Wednesday." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "U.S. Rep. Mariaette Miller-Meeks of Iowa said on social media that she'd received credible death threats and a barrage of threatening calls that she reported to authorities since voting for Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger of Texas instead of Jordan on Wednesday." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "Even with Trump's endorsement, Jordan lost an initial vote to House GOP Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who withdrew from consideration after concluding he couldn't get the 217 votes needed to win." | Negative | -66% Liberal |
| "Even with Trump's endorsement, Jordan lost an initial vote to House GOP Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who withdrew from consideration after concluding he couldn't get the 217 votes needed to win." | Negative | -66% Liberal |
| "Even with Trump's endorsement, Jordan lost an initial vote to House GOP Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, who withdrew from consideration after concluding he couldn't get the 217 votes needed to win." | Negative | -66% Liberal |
| "Trump publicly backed Jordan for speaker and Jordan has been a fierce Trump ally on Capitol Hill, defending Trump from impeachment charges and trying to help him overturn results of the 2020 presidential election." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Trump publicly backed Jordan for speaker and Jordan has been a fierce Trump ally on Capitol Hill, defending Trump from impeachment charges and trying to help him overturn results of the 2020 presidential election." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Trump publicly backed Jordan for speaker and Jordan has been a fierce Trump ally on Capitol Hill, defending Trump from impeachment charges and trying to help him overturn results of the 2020 presidential election." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Trump publicly backed Jordan for speaker and Jordan has been a fierce Trump ally on Capitol Hill, defending Trump from impeachment charges and trying to help him overturn results of the 2020 presidential election." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "He said some of those blocking Jordan are senior members of the committee that writes funding bills and don't want him as speaker because they believe he creates chaos.Bacon said he believes Jordan's supporters were responsible for McCarthy's ouster, and for blocking Scalise's ability to get 217 votes when he initially bested Jordan." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "He said some of those blocking Jordan are senior members of the committee that writes funding bills and don't want him as speaker because they believe he creates chaos.Bacon said he believes Jordan's supporters were responsible for McCarthy's ouster, and for blocking Scalise's ability to get 217 votes when he initially bested Jordan." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "He said some of those blocking Jordan are senior members of the committee that writes funding bills and don't want him as speaker because they believe he creates chaos.Bacon said he believes Jordan's supporters were responsible for McCarthy's ouster, and for blocking Scalise's ability to get 217 votes when he initially bested Jordan." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
| "He said some of those blocking Jordan are senior members of the committee that writes funding bills and don't want him as speaker because they believe he creates chaos.Bacon said he believes Jordan's supporters were responsible for McCarthy's ouster, and for blocking Scalise's ability to get 217 votes when he initially bested Jordan." | Negative | -72% Liberal |
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50% : "He supports an extreme agenda and is hell bent on banning abortion nationwide, gutting Medicare, gutting Social Security and giving cover to January 6 attackers.40% : "Jordan's supporters, like Miami County Republican Warren Davidson, who sat beside him on the House floor during each day's speaker votes, argue he's the right person to unite House Republicans because of his "proven track record of growing our majority, fighting for border security, and reigning in" President Joe Biden's administration.
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