Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
Friday was not a normal day in the U.S. House of Representatives. It was a day in which House Republicans nominated House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan for speaker — two days after he lost a similar intraparty race — though he received only 56% support from the GOP conference, despite running against a relatively obscure member who did not campaign for the position and who publicly conceded that he didn’t actually want the job.
Instead of making offers, they’re relying on intimidation campaigns, hoping that House Republicans who don’t want to make the Ohioan speaker will ultimately be afraid not to. What’s more, Jordan has some high-profile GOP voices in his corner: Not only is McCarthy backing the Judiciary Committee chairman — taking steps he was not willing to take on behalf of Scalise — but Jordan also has Donald Trump’s support.
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