House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) won the nomination for speaker in conference, and the vote was not convincing enough to go to the floor right away, so the House adjourned for the weekend to give him enough time to shore up support.
Jordan emerged as the party’s nominee after a secret ballot vote on Friday in which the Ohio Republican bested Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA) in a closed-door election. But, the Ohio Republican’s victory was anything but convincing as he only gained 26 more votes from when he ran earlier this week. Scott, who announced he was running just one hour before the candidate forum, got 81 votes.
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On a separate ballot, after he won the nomination, members were posed the question of whether they would “support Jordan on the floor?” That ballot came out with a re …