It took Kevin McCarthy 15 votes to get elected as speaker so it is not over for Jordan however we’ll see the way it goes from right here. Congress is voting and he is already misplaced 9 votes, which is greater than the 5 he might afford to lose.
- Don Bacon
- Lori Chavez-DeRemer
- Anthony D’Esposito
- Mario Diaz-Balart
- Jake Ellzey
- Andrew Garbarino
- Carlos Giminez
- Tony Gonzales
They’ve all voted for different candidates and the votes are nonetheless coming in (as you may see above, they’re solely on the letter ‘G’ as they vote alphabetically).
Some candidates have indicated they’d solely vote for Jordan on the primary poll as effectively, so it might get testy from right here.
Punchbowl indicated that he would wish to get round 200 votes to maintain his candidacy alive.
In the meantime, right here is the place issues stand at PredictIt:
