Rep. Jim Jordan walks to the House chambers ahead of a planned vote for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol on October 17, 2023 in Washington, DC.
hio Republican Jim Jordan still hasn’t locked up the votes he needs to be the next Speaker of the House. But on Tuesday,Matthew Green, a politics professor at the Catholic University of America who published a book in 2010 on the historical role of the Speaker, says a few aspects of Jordan and his political career would make his obtaining the speaker’s gavel stand out.
"Jordan has a strong base of support, a lot of conservative grassroots activists who are really loyal to him,” Green says. “Are they going to maintain that loyalty if he has to make bills more moderate in order to pass them? Or is he going to stick to his ideological guns, in which case he may struggle to succeed legislatively?"
“Republicans aren't really following the traditional leadership ladder here,” Green says, noting that Jordan is chair of the House Judiciary Committee but has not held other posts Speakers typically start with, particularly Majority Leader. The chaos of the process that might launch Jordan into the speakership is a sign of changing times. According to Green, it’s very unusual to watch the majority party cycle through candidates publicly the way Republicans have over the last week. In recent decades, both parties have struggled more to keep the process behind closed doors, but Democrats, especially under former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have had an easier time getting rank-and-file members in line.
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