Jordan Loses Support in Second Vote for Speaker

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🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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On Wednesday, the House of Representatives once again voted to fill the speakership position left vacant following the removal of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The Republican nominee for speaker, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), received 199 votes—well short of the 217 votes he needed to win a majority of the House and one fewer vote than he received on Tuesday. It seems increasingly unlikely that House Republicans will be able to coalesce behind one candidate. Consequently, many House members are calling for a temporary expansion of powers granted to Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC). According to Annie Karni of The New York Times, “Scott Perry, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus that Jordan helped establish, says he won’t support any resolution to empower Patrick McHenry, the speaker pro tem. Perry says he hopes Jordan keeps fighting, adding that the race is simply about ‘stamina.’” You can read updates as they unfold here: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/18/us/house-speaker-vote-jim-jordan
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden delivered an address from Tel Aviv, Israel and met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While taking questions from the press, Biden discussed a deadly strike on a hospital in Gaza: "Based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. But there's a lot of people who are not sure."
The Wall Street Journal reports, “Israel, the U.S. government and independent security experts cast doubt Wednesday on Palestinian claims that an Israeli airstrike was responsible for a deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital compound, saying the preliminary evidence pointed to a local militant group. Independent analysts poring over publicly available images of Tuesday’s explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza and its aftermath say the blast site doesn’t bear the hallmarks of a strike with a bomb or missile of the types usually used by Israel….The U.S. has collected ‘high confidence’ signals intelligence indicating that the blast at the hospital in Gaza was caused by the militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, U.S. officials said, buttressing Israel’s contention that it wasn’t responsible for the blast.” You can read more from the report from journalists Margherita Stancati, Yaroslav Trofimov, Nancy A. Youssef, and Stephen Kalin here: https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-tries-to-back-up-claims-it-didnt-attack-gaza-hospital-a8cc3405
Rich accuses Momma Zeoli of purchasing the worst frozen pizza he has ever tasted.
RNC Research on X notes that progressive representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Summer Lee have not removed social media posts falsely blaming Israel for a missile strike on a hospital in Gaza—which has now been attributed to Palestinian terrorists accidentally misfiring a rocket.

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0:00.0	B-H-D-L-E-P-H-D-H-D-W-O-G-L-H-D-D-3, Philadelphia, from the Cheerio Volos studios, where relationships matter.
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0:17.0	This dish is the next generation of talk.
0:20.0	Now, on Talk Radio 1210 W-P-H-D, Rich Zioly.
0:27.0	Well, we still don't have a speaker of the house yet, but I can't even begin to understand what these Republicans are thinking here.
0:37.0	Not backing Jim Jordan. I cannot begin to understand what these guys are thinking.
0:42.0	Other than they want the establishment status quo uniparty to win another day.
0:47.0	Welcome to the show. Glad you're here. A55 with R91210 on Twitter at Rich Zioly.
0:54.0	Biden basically fell asleep today at a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
1:00.0	There's a lot going on, excuse me, on the banging of the drums of war phase of the day.
1:07.0	Well, I'll give you all the updates on that, obviously.
1:10.0	And closer to home, Donald Trump, back in court, again, it doesn't stop.
1:18.0	Really, the relentless pursuit of this man does not stop.
1:21.0	I've never seen like this before in my life.
1:24.0	But it's almost like two different worlds, right?
1:26.0	On the one hand, you've got the former president sitting there in court.
1:30.0	And you just kind of had a sense of, at least I do, that if he were president right now,
1:34.0	the world would not be in this position that it's in.
1:37.0	And then you've got the president of the United States, who's traveling around the world
1:42.0	and falling asleep at freaking meetings.
1:45.0	And that dichotomy, to me, it's just, it's so obvious.
1:49.0	I kept thinking about it.
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