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‘Game on’: Jordan racing to secure votes as speaker vote looms

He’s signaling he wants to bring up a floor vote on Tuesday but is still short support to secure the speakership.

The Ohio Republican told POLITICO that he wants to be able to go to the floor on Tuesday, giving him a matter of days to try to flip more than 50 GOP lawmakers who signaled in a secret ballot vote on Friday that they won’t support him.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/14/jim-jordan-racing-to-secure-speaker-votes-00121584