'He lost!' GOP insider amazed Jim Jordan 'hijacked' speaker nomination
Jim Jordan "hijacked" the process of choosing a new Speaker of the House — and he's paying for it now with a critical mass of the caucus unwilling to give him the votes to get the gavel.
That's the view of Brendan Buck, a former communications adviser for former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who offered his view of the matter on MSNBC Tuesday.
"I want to zoom in, there are two things here," said anchor Chris Hayes. "On one level, it does not matter if you're looking at — if you're like me, and what you would like to see is a Republican Speaker of the House who did not vote to subvert the constitutional order, you're probably out of luck. McCarthy, Scalise, Jordan all took that vote, the 147, and I think anybody who would win an election probably does. What do you think it says about — what is your understanding of the objectors and how unified their objections are?"
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"You know, I was surprised," said Buck. "First off, surprised how large the number was, and I was surprised that he came out and said, let's do it again, have another vote. They are not backing down ... they seem pretty dug in. I think this comes down to the fact that, for a long time, the House has allowed some of the bad actors to get away with things, but this would be an astonishing act of rewarding bad behavior. Let's not forget that just two weeks ago, Kevin Mccarthy was the Speaker of the House, and he was removed by his own members. Jordan then ran against Scalise and lost."
"Yeah, he lost!" laughed Hayes.
"The only reason he's now in this position is because this team hijacked Steve Scalise and took him down," Buck continued. "I think that there are a lot of House Republicans that are very happy, ecstatic that some of their colleagues had the courage to stand up and do this. It would be remarkable to allow that to happen, basically say, there are no rules, we give up, you can have whatever you want, even if you are a tiny minority of the conference."
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