'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?"...