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Despite deepening opposition, Rep. Jim Jordan<\/a> is digging in for a fight to become House speaker ahead of a Friday vote, even as his Republican colleagues are warning the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump that no more threats or promises can win their support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The House is scheduled to convene for Jordan\u2019s third try at the gavel, but Republicans have no realistic or workable plan to unite the fractured GOP majority, elect a new speaker and return to the work of Congress that has been languishing since hard-liners ousted Kevin McCarthy<\/a> at the start of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe American people are hungry for change,\u201d Jordan said in a news conference at the Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on his Ohio roots, Jordan, who is popular with the GOP\u2019s right-flank activist base of voters, positioned his long-shot campaign alongside the history of American innovators including the Wright brothers, urging his colleagues to elect him to the speakership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But after two failed votes, Jordan\u2019s third attempt at the gavel is not expected to end any better. In fact, Friday is likely to produce an even worse tally for the Judiciary Committee<\/a> chairman \u2014 in large part because more centrist rank-and-file Republicans are revolting over the hardball tactics being used to win their votes. They have been bombarded with harassing phone calls and even reported death threats<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more than two weeks the stalemate has shut down the U.S. House, leaving a seat of American democracy severely hobbled at a time of challenges at home and abroad<\/a>. The House Republican majority appears to have no idea how to end the political turmoil and get back to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t have the votes to be speaker,\u201d Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., said after a late Thursday meeting when Jordan sought to hear detractors out and shore up support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The holdouts want \u201cnothing\u201d from Jordan, Gimenez said, adding that some of the lawmakers in the meeting simply called on Jordan to drop out of the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One extraordinary idea,<\/a> to give the interim speaker pro tempore, Rep. Patrick McHenry<\/a>, more powers for the next several months to at least bring the House back into session and conduct crucial business, was swiftly rejected by Jordan\u2019s own ultra-conservative allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A \u201cbetrayal,\u201d said Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next steps were highly uncertain as angry, frustrated Republicans predict the House could essentially stay closed for the foreseeable future \u2014 perhaps until the mid-November deadline for Congress to approve funding or risk a federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to figure out if there\u2019s a way we can get back with a Republican-only solution,\u201d said veteran legislator Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what normal majorities do. What this majority has done is prove it\u2019s not a normal majority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was clear was that Jordan was refusing to step aside,<\/a> appearing determined to wait out his foes even as his path to become House speaker was all but collapsing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we saw with Speaker McCarthy in the 15 rounds is that he went down first and then he came back,\u201d said Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., referring to January\u2019s historic election. \u201cThat\u2019s where we are with Jordan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But earlier, Rep. John Rutherford, R-Fla., said \u201cit\u2019s not going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many view the Ohio congressman as too extreme for a central seat of U.S. power, second in line to the presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a first failed vote Tuesday, Jordan lost rather than gained ground on a second ballot Wednesday, opposed by 22 Republicans, two more than the day before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne thing I cannot stomach or support is a bully,\u201d said a statement from Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, who voted against Jordan on the second ballot and said she received \u201ccredible death threats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Republicans in majority control of the House, 221-212, it appears there is no Republican candidate who can win a clear majority, 217 votes, to become speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A closed-door meeting Thursday to regroup grew heated at times with Republican factions blaming one another for sending their majority into chaos, lawmakers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, a chief architect of the ouster of the speaker two weeks ago, rose to speak, McCarthy told him it was not his turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re shaking up Washington, D.C. We\u2019re breaking the fever. And, you know what, it\u2019s messy,\u201d Gaetz said later, saying he had no regrets over the past weeks of havoc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elevating McHenry to an expanded speaker\u2019s role coulld be a possible off-ramp for the crisis, but it would not be as politically simple as it might seem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans are loath to partner with the Democrats in a bipartisan way on the arrangement, and it\u2019s highly unlikely Republicans could agree to give McHenry more powers on their own, since their hard-liners don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McHenry himself has brushed off attempts to take the job more permanently after he was appointed to the role after the unprecedented ouster of McCarthy<\/a> more than two weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to abide by the Constitution and the rules of the House, and no one is going to put me in a different position,\u201d McHenry said late Thursday, reiterating what he has told his colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf there is some goal to subvert the House rules to give me powers without a formal vote, I will not accept it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The North Carolina Republican, who is is well-liked by his colleagues and viewed as a highly competent legislator, has said his job is \u201cto get the next speaker elected. That\u2019s my focus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To win over his GOP colleagues, Jordan had relied on backing from Trump, the party\u2019s front-runner in the 2024 election, and groups pressuring rank-and-file lawmakers for the vote. But they were not enough and in fact backfired on some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan has been a top Trump ally, particularly during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack<\/a> by the former president\u2019s backers who were trying to overturn the 2020 election he lost to Biden. Days later, Trump awarded Jordan a Medal of Freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First elected in 2006, Jordan has few bills to his name from his time in office. He also faces questions about his past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some years ago, Jordan denied allegations<\/a> from former wrestlers during his time as an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University who accused him of knowing about claims they were inappropriately groped by an Ohio State doctor. Jordan has said he was never aware of any abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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