On Monday night, Marjorie Taylor Greene was confident that Jim Jordan would become Speaker on Tuesday. While there were a lot of dissidents within the Republican conference — 55 had said they would refuse to vote for Jordan in a secret ballot last week — she was sure they would come around. “I think when we get to the floor, these people that have been saying they refuse to vote for Jim Jordan, they’re not going to have the courage to say that,” she said.
It turned out they had the courage.
Twenty Republicans voted against Jordan on the House floor on Tuesday, a resounding defeat for the hard-right conservative who had maneuvered his way to becoming the Speaker-designate after weeks of parliamentary twists and turns incited by a successful effort to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
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