The House of Representatives is expected to vote on Rep. Jim Jordan's candidacy for Speaker for a third time on Wednesday after the Ohio Republican lost the first two votes. Jordan faces rising calls to temporarily empower Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry as a stopgap measure.
Ousted ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., does still have allies who would back him if he sought to get his old job back — but the vast majority of the GOP conference, including McCarthy himself, have moved on. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., declared as recently as Monday that he was “still OK — only Kevin.” The pro-McCarthy sentiment of Gimenez’s was reposted on social media by Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., another moderate Republican who has not said if he will support Jordan on the House floor.
McCarthy himself, however, told fellow Republicans multiple times not to nominate him for speaker again. 'It isn’t viable and could draw out the process,' a senior GOP aide told Fox News Digital last week of a potential comeback bid by McCarthy. McCarthy was removed earlier this month in a majority House vote of eight Republicans and all present Democrats. One of those eight, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn.
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