Exclusive — Jim Jordan on Prospect of Nominating McCarthy for Speaker: ‘I’d Be Happy To’Ashley Oliver 2 Mar 2022
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) would be willing to be the one to nominate GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for speaker should House Republicans take back the majority in the midterms this year.
Jordan made the revelation to Breitbart News in an interview during a House Republican Conference media event on Tuesday, saying he would be “happy to” nominate McCarthy if McCarthy were to ask him to.
“I think Kevin’s done a great job. I think he’s going to be the speaker,” Jordan said. “He’s done a great job of keeping us together. You know, I don’t get into hypotheticals. If he asked me, I’d be happy to do it, but no one’s asked me, so we’ll see how all that plays out.”
McCarthy is currently the frontrunning candidate to become speaker should the GOP win the majority in nine months, though a few potential incoming candidates and pundits have expressed reservations, per reports from Business Insider and the New York Times.
McCarthy, for his part, has embraced his leadership trajectory. He used his “magic minute” to speak for nearly nine hours on the House floor in November against President Joe Biden’s agenda-defining Build Back Better legislation and made a slew of vows to Breitbart News in interviews in December, such as promising not to entertain amnesty legislation and promising to strip certain controversial Democrat congressmembers of their committee positions should he be the one serving as speaker.
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