Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. Across the United States of America, glad to have you with me. The phone number.

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877-9-73-7-4-25. We are awaiting voting on the floor of the House of Representatives for

Jim Jordan to be Speaker of the House. Does he have the votes? I don't know necessarily that he does have the votes.

It's going to probably be very close. And there's been a strong pressure campaign brought to

bear for Jim Jordan by the conservative movement, Kevin McCarthy helping him, which oddly enough has brought out some criticism that this just means that

Jim Jordan is now a tool of the establishment. Conservatives, of course, believe that he's the guy everybody can trust.

So here's what I know in the setup so far.

We have firm nose.

Keep in mind, he can only lose three.

Don Bacon, Mike Lawler, Mike Kelly, Carlos Jimenez, Mario Diaz, Belart.

They are firm nose on Jim Jordan.

Ken Buck, Victoria Spart, Steve Womack, and Marionette Miller Meeks, Arlini, no.

Young Kim, John Rutherford, Owan, Sissomanie, and Tom Keene, Jr.

Are undecided, and Gus Billeracus is out, which means he can only lose three votes. Normally it's four for the House GOP, but today it's three because Gus Billericus is out.

And he's got five for no.

Ken Buck is a friend of mine. He's the congressman from Colorado. He's leaning no. And the reason he's leaning no is he

wants a clear statement from Jim Jordan that Jim Jordan does not believe the 2020 election

was stolen. And if he does not get that from Jim Jordan, he intends to vote against Jim

Jordan. He wants that clear clear

statement now all of this is to say as well we don't know how this is going to go

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