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Rep. Jim Jordan has the House GOP's nomination for the speaker. He isn't the speaker just yet – he still has to win a floor vote, which is scheduled for Tuesday. Rep. Jim Jordan has the House GOP's nomination for speaker. But he doesn't have the gavel just yet -- he still has to win a floor vote, set for Tuesday afternoon. And a nomination doesn't automatically mean he has a lock on the leadership position. In a secret vote among their conference on Friday, 55 House Republicans said they would not cast ballots for Jordan on the floor -- complicating his path to the 217 votes he needs. Jordan, a conservative firebrand and favorite of former President Donald Trump, would, as speaker, be second in the line of presidential succession after the vice president. MORE: House Republicans will try, again, to elect speaker amid gridlock after McCarthy ouster Who is Jim Jordan? Jordan, 59, has a reputation as a rabble-rouser unafraid to attack Democrats and challenge his ow...

Rep_ Jim Jordan has such a reputation as a political brawler that former House Speaker John Boehner once said he’d never met someone “who spent more time tearing things apart.” WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jim Jordan has such a reputation as a political brawler that former House Speaker John Boehner once said he'd never met someone "who spent more time tearing things apart.” Now, nearly a decade after Boehner stepped down in the face of a conservative revolt, it is Jordan who is trying to bring the Republican Party together to win the speaker's gavel. A favorite of former President Donald Trump and darling of the party’s rabble-rousing base, Jordan's path to the U.S. government's third-highest office is by no means certain in a House Republican conference riven by co NFL ict following the ouster two weeks ago of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. To win, he'll need support from nearly every House Republicans, having few votes to spare in a chamber they only narrowly cont...