众议员吉姆·乔丹(Jim Jordan)在第一次竞选议长时失败了——这是本月早些时候凯文·麦卡锡被历史性驱逐后混乱的槌子争夺战中的最新一次。
经过两个星期的立法瘫痪，众议院于周二开始对乔丹的提名进行投票保守派煽动者，坚定的唐纳德·特朗普忠诚者和众议院自由核心小组的创始成员。
在众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫·斯卡利斯退出竞选后，乔丹赢得了共和党内部的提名竞争，但他面临着一场艰苦的战斗，以确保赢得217票。
下一次议长投票预计在周三上午进行
下一次议长投票将于周三上午11点进行，乔丹在结束了在威普·艾默办公室举行的两个小时的会议后说。
他重申，他不会退出议长竞选，并强调他在1月份的第一次投票中获得了与麦卡锡基本相同的支持。
乔丹说，他希望在周三上午的投票中获得支持，他提到了佛罗里达州众议员格斯·比利拉基斯，他因为家庭葬礼而错过了今天的投票。他没有提及未来潜在的叛逃者。
共和党人对乔丹首轮失利的看法
在约旦第一次投票失败后，一些共和党人出现在会场，公开表示沮丧，而其他人仍然乐观。
“我们必须清醒过来，停止这种无意义的行为。有真正重要的工作要做，”宾夕法尼亚州众议员丹·默瑟说。
他说，默瑟在投票后与共和党同事进行了“直接”和“强烈”的交谈，试图改变他们。“我们必须明白，我们必须像一个团队一样运作，因为如果我们不这样做，我们将失去一切。”
但他必须与科罗拉多州的肯·巴克(Ken Buck)等成员竞争，他坚定地反对约旦，因为担心他不会支持乌克兰的资助，也因为他在抗议2020年选举结果中的作用。
“我不会投票给吉姆，我只是认为在这一点上有太多，”巴克告诉美国广播公司新闻。巴克说，他感觉如此强烈，“因为我只是不认为，如果我们党内的候选人和领导人不承认唐纳德·特朗普输了，不承认共和党想要前进，我们就能赢得总统选举。”
当然，默瑟和其他共和党人认为，不投票也将威胁到共和党在下次选举中的胜利。
“我认为这绝对给该机构和共和党人蒙上了一层阴影，”纽约众议员Nicole Malliotakis告诉美国广播公司新闻。
然而，还有一些人更乐观——将这一过程与麦卡锡的过程相比较，并以此来论证乔丹正在走向成功。
"你相信最终会是议长乔丹吗?"美国广播公司新闻资深国会记者雷切尔·斯科特问田纳西州众议员蒂姆·伯切特。
“我知道，”他回答道。
共和党内斗仍在继续
消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻高级国会记者雷切尔·斯科特，乔丹周二闭门会见了斯卡利斯，并请求帮助获得所需的选票。消息来源称斯卡利斯不会承诺帮助乔丹。
在上周的内部竞争中，斯卡利斯是大会的首选发言人，因为他以113-99击败了乔丹。但几天后，在支持乔丹的顽固分子的反对声中，他退出了。
在第一轮投票反对乔丹的20名共和党人中，有7人投票支持斯卡利斯。
斯卡利斯投票给乔丹。
杰弗里斯敦促共和党加入民主党“寻找两党前进的道路”
美国广播公司新闻问众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯，他是否认为共和党人今天正在努力走出议长职位的僵局。
“这不是一个复杂的情况，”杰弗里斯回答说。“我们只需要传统的共和党人脱离极端分子，和我们一起寻找一条两党合作的前进道路。我们已经说了一遍又一遍。我们已经准备好，愿意，也有能力聚在一起，重新开房。”
House speaker vote live updates: Next vote on Jim Jordan expected Wednesday
Rep. Jim Jordan lost his first bid for the speakership -- the latest in a chaotic battle for the gavel after the historic ouster of Kevin McCarthy earlier this month.
After two weeks of legislative paralysis, the House began voting Tuesday on the nomination of Jordan, aconservative firebrand, staunch Donald Trump loyalist and founding member of the House Freedom Caucus.
Jordan won an internal GOP contest for the nomination after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise bowed out of the race, but he faces an uphill battle in securing the 217 votes needed to win the gavel.
Next speaker vote expected Wednesday morning
The next speaker vote will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jordan said after he left a two-hour meeting in Whip Emmer's office.
He reiterated that he is not going to drop out of the speaker battle and emphasized that he had basically the same level of support as McCarthy on his first vote in January.
Jordan said he expects to gain support in a Wednesday morning vote, mentioning Florida Rep. Gus Bilirakis, who missed today's vote because of a family funeral. He didn’t address potential future defectors.
What Republicans are saying about Jordan's first-round loss
Emerging from the floor after Jordan's failed first vote, some Republicans expressed open frustration while others remained optimistic.
"We gotta wake up and stop this nonsense. There's real serious work to be done," Pennsylvania Rep. Dan Meuser said.
Meuser had "direct" and "strong" conversations with GOP colleagues after the vote to try to swing them, he said. "We've got to understand -- we've got to operate as a team, because if we don't, we will lose everything."
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Rep. Jim Jordan interacts with fellow members as the House of Representatives prepares to vote on a new Speaker of the House at the Capitol Building, Oct. 17, 2023.
But he has to contend with members such as Colorado's Ken Buck, who is staunchly anti-Jordan because of concerns he won't support Ukraine funding and because of his role in protesting the 2020 election results.
"I am not going to vote for Jim, I just think there's too much there at this point," Buck told ABC News. Buck said he feels so strongly "because I just don't think that we can win the presidential election if we have candidates and leaders in our party who won't admit that Donald Trump lost, who won't admit that the Republican Party wants to move forward."
Of course, Republicans such as Meuser and others argued that not voting in a speaker will also threaten GOP victories in the next election.
"I think it absolutely casts a bad cloud over the institution and Republicans," New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis told ABC News.
Still others, however, were more optimistic -- comparing this process to McCarthy's and using it to argue that Jordan is on track for success.
"Do you believe that at the end of the day, it's going to be Speaker Jordan?" ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott asked Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett.
"I do," he replied.
GOP infighting continues
Jordan met with Scalise behind closed doors on Tuesday and asked for help to get the needed votes, a source told ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott. The source says Scalise wouldn't commit to helping Jordan.
Scalise was the conference's first choice for speaker in an internal contest last week, as he defeated Jordan 113-99. But he dropped out days later, amid opposition from holdouts who were backing Jordan.
Of the 20 Republicans who voted against Jordan in the first round, seven voted for Scalise.
Scalise cast his vote for Jordan.
Jeffries urges GOP to join Dems in 'finding a bipartisan path forward'
ABC News asked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries if he sees Republicans forging a way out of the speakership impasse today.
"It's not a complicated situation," Jeffries responded. "We just need traditional Republicans to break from the extremists and join us in finding a bipartisan path forward. We've said it over and over and over again. We are ready, willing and able to get together and reopen the House."
