Trump Endorses Rep. Jim Jordan As Next Speaker Of The House
Liz Cheney disagrees, “suggesting that it could mark the end of the GOP as they know it”
Following the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Steve Scalise (R-LA) threw their hats in the ring to become the next Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
Both, I think, are good choices, but former president Trump has endorsed Jordan.
Donald Trump early Friday announced his endorsement of Rep. Jim Jordan to be the next speaker of the House.
“He will be a GREAT Speaker of the House, & has my Complete and Total Endorsement!” the former president wrote in a post to his social media site, Truth Social, that praised Jordan’s political record as well as his college wrestling achievements.
. . . . Both Jordan and Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise have begun accumulating support for the speaker role. Jordan has endorsed Trump’s presidential campaign. Scalise, who has served as majority leader under McCarthy, has not.
Jordan, the hardline cofounder of the conservative Freedom Caucus, said on Fox News on Thursday night he is confident he can bring together the fractured Republican conference.
Trump on Jim Jordan: “He will be a GREAT Speaker of the House, & has my Complete and Total endorsement!” pic.twitter.com/PJh2nsaX3n
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) October 6, 2023
One person not happy with Jordan’s Speakership bid is Liz Let’s Find A Country To Bomb Cheney.
🚨JUST IN:
Liz Cheney warns against electing Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House:"If they were to decide that, there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected Republicans could be counted on to defend the Constitution."
Speaking to a packed crowd at… pic.twitter.com/SVVE1iGNEb
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 5, 2023
Here’s the full text:
Liz Cheney warns against electing Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House:
“If they were to decide that, there would no longer be any possible way to argue that a group of elected Republicans could be counted on to defend the Constitution.”
Speaking to a packed crowd at the University of Minnesota, Cheney also criticized former Speaker McCarthy:
“Kevin McCarthy is absolutely unfit to be speaker. Kevin McCarthy at every moment over the course of the last two years, has done more to enable and collaborate with and apologize for Donald Trump.”
Poor old Liz, still living in the Bush-Cheney “compassionate conservative”–i.e. progressive, big government, big spending, big war–glory days of yore. This unintentional endorsement of Jordan may carry more weight than Trump’s.
I guess I really do care about what she has to say. It's clear that @Jim_Jordan is the best choice.
— 🇺🇸Bluzguitar🚫🐂💩 (@bluzguitar) October 6, 2023
Well, that decides it for me, Jim Jordan it is!
— Jack Fleming Jr (@JackFlemingJr) October 6, 2023
Democrat hactivist outlet HuffPo reports:
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) didn’t mince her words about Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who is now running for the speaker’s gavel following the showdown that saw Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) voted out.
In a speech at the University of Minnesota on Wednesday, the former vice chair of the House Select Committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection said Jordan was the leader among those who were aware of former President Donald Trump’s plans to cling on to power despite losing the 2020 election.
“Jim Jordan knew more about what Donald Trump had planned for January 6th than any other member of the House of Representatives,” Cheney said. “Jim Jordan was involved, was part of the conspiracy in which Donald Trump was engaged as he attempted to overturn the election.”
While Cheney said she didn’t expect Jordan to win the upcoming contest, she said his potential ascension to the position would send a strong message about where the GOP’s allegiance lies.
Former Representative Liz Cheney offered an ominous warning to House Republicans about electing Representative Jim Jordan as the next Speaker of the House, suggesting that it could mark the end of the GOP as they know it.
That’s a ringing endorsement if ever I heard one.
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“Trump endorses”
Cut to meme of me as spaceman facing two large pushbuttons.
You’re right — the fact that Cheney badmouths him moves me way more.
Trump also endorsed McCarthy.
To quote the vile, venal witch (and failed presidential candidate) who should be in prison already, “What difference, at this point, does it make?!”
I have commented before that who dislikes someone is often a better indication of their worth, Ditz Liz Cheney demonstrates this.
I was on the fence about Jordan, but the thumbs-down from Liz Cheney put Jordan over the top.
Thanks, Liz!
I think Jordan would do a great job, and Crazy Lizzy’s anti-endorsement makes me more certain of that. However, I’d really rather see him continue his work uncovering and publicizing what a crook Brandon the pedophile is.
Liz got run out by deep red Wyoming; now peddles her BS at leftist university in the blue state that gave us Ilhan Omar.
“suggesting that it could mark the end of the GOP as they know it”
What’s funny is that, for decades, Left-wing academics have been decreeing that the GOP needs to end. Well, this is what it looks like.
Let’s see…
Pick Jordan, and the GOPe as we know it is destroyed.
Pick someone Cheney, Kitzinger, and their ilk approves of, and have a GOP that won’t stand up for the voters who gave them a majority.
What to do, what to do?
I’ll take “give me back the Whig Party “ for $200 Alex.
“”GOPe as we know it is destroyed””
Not necessarily. They’re still the majority of the caucus. Poetic justice: 20 McCarthy supporters form a bloc and issue a list of unconditional demands, refusing to vote for anybody but Scalise unless they’re met.
Liz Cheney is just as bad the worst Dems, a truely foul person.
Trump is a great political thinker. Had he been present at the first constitutional convention, he would have provided the hookers.
According to Jim Jordan the way to fix the FBI is to move the HQ to his state. $$$ is all that was about.
Liz Cheney disagrees, “suggesting that it could mark the end of the GOP as they know it”. Might not be a bad idea. Up until now it is good for shooting itself in all their collective feet. Either way, with world events exploding right now, this side show needs to end even though the collection of nearly dead lice still inhabits the White House. If I had to bet, McCarthy will be back in the Speaker job.