Several of the legislator’s supporters have posted phone numbers of GOP lawmakers they count as holdouts, encouraging followers to call the Capitol switchboard.
| Representative Jim Jordan and his allies have begun a right-wing pressure campaign against Republicans opposed to electing him US Speaker, working to unleash the rage of the party’s base voters against any lawmaker standing in the way of his election.
It is an extraordinary instance of Republican-on-Republican fighting that underscores the divisions that have wrought chaos inside the party,Several of Mr Jordan’s supporters have posted the phone numbers of mainstream GOP lawmakers they count as holdouts, encouraging followers to flood the Capitol switchboard with calls demanding they back him – or face the wrath of conservative voters as they gear up for primary season.
A new generation of hardliners has been able to exploit the tiny governing margin, dethroning one speaker and scuttling the bid of his heir apparent. “Everybody’s going to go home, listen to their constituents and make a decision,” said Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee, predicting that hearing from the party base would help sway holdouts in Mr Jordan’s direction. “Honestly, the grassroots, there’s nobody stronger.”
But some mainstream Republicans are opposing Mr Jordan on principle. They differ with him on matters of policy, nowhere more sharply than on continuing to fund the war in Ukraine, a priority for many of them to which Mr Jordan and his “America First” allies are deeply opposed.Many of them are also reluctant to reward what they see as bad behaviour, by giving the far-right lawmakers who forced Mr McCarthy from his post and touched off the current governing crisis their preferred leader.
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