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Rep. Jim Jordan isn’t making a third attempt to become speaker of the House on Thursday, but that doesn’t mean the Republican chaos is at an end. The far right is up in arms about the plan to temporarily expand Rep. Patrick McHenry’s powers as speaker pro tempore, Jordan will remain waiting in the wings for another try at speaker in January, and a large majority of Republicans did already cast two votes for an extremist with the thinnest possible legislative record.
It’s not a great look for the party—as some Republicans are well aware.
“It hurts the country; it hurts the Congress; it’s hurting our party,” Rep. Don Bacon told The New York Times. “It’s putting us in a bad hole for next November.” Bacon, who represents a Nebraska district won by President Joe Biden in 2020 and voted against Jordan both times, said he believes some of his fellow Republicans “want to be in the minority,” adding, “I think they would prefer that. So they can just vote no and just yell and scream all the time.”
