{"id":31736,"date":"2023-10-19T06:55:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T06:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innodebt.com\/politics\/republicans-who-voted-against-jordans-speakership-bid-report-menacing-calls-and-threats-to-their-offices\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T06:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T06:55:34","slug":"republicans-who-voted-against-jordans-speakership-bid-report-menacing-calls-and-threats-to-their-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innodebt.com\/?p=31736","title":{"rendered":"Republicans who voted against Jordan\u2019s speakership bid report menacing calls and threats to their offices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Several Republicans who opposed Rep. Jim Jordan\u2019s House speakership bid said they are experiencing angry calls, menacing messages and even death threats since casting their votes, increasing the already tense and chaotic atmosphere in the GOP as they struggle to elect a speaker.\n <\/p>\n

\n Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa said in a statement that she has \u201creceived credible death threats and a barrage of threatening calls\u201d after flipping her speaker vote from Jordan on Tuesday to House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger on Wednesday. New York Rep. Nick LaLota, meanwhile, shared in a social media post a message he received that told him to \u201cgo f**k yourself and die.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas said his office has been flooded with calls and there\u2019s been \u201clots of profanity,\u201d but \u201cno real substantive threats,\u201d while Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon\u2019s wife received menacing text messages.\n <\/p>\n

\n The anonymous text messages warned her husband \u2013 who has been a vocal holdout against Jordan \u2013 to back the Ohio Republican. \u201cYour husband will not hold any political office ever again. What a disappointment and failure he is,\u201d read one messages sent to Bacon\u2019s wife and obtained by CNN through the congressman. She responded to that text saying, \u201cHe has more courage than you. You won\u2019t put your name to your statements.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Jordan has so far failed to clinch the speakership in two rounds of voting, facing 22 GOP votes against his bid on Wednesday \u2013 far more than the handful he could afford to lose given the party\u2019s narrow majority in the House. The prolonged speaker fight in the wake of Kevin McCarthy\u2019s historic ouster earlier this month has led to growing tensions and frustration among the House Republican conference.\n <\/p>\n

\n Jordan on Wednesday condemned the death threats, saying \u201cit\u2019s just wrong.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt should never happen,\u201d Jordan said as he left his office Wednesday night. \u201cIt\u2019s just wrong, and we don\u2019t want it to happen to anyone, any American, anybody, any member of Congress. It\u2019s just wrong.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The comments followed an earlier post from the congressman on X that said, \u201cno American should accost another for their beliefs \u2026 Stop. It\u2019s abhorrent.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Still, some of the Republicans who have voted against Jordan have railed against what they have described as the pressure campaign against them and said it\u2019s only hardened their opposition. Conservative leaders and media figures have attacked the holdouts online and posted their office phone numbers, encouraging people to flood those offices with phone calls in support of Jordan.\n <\/p>\n

\n Womack derided what he called the \u201cattack, attack, attack\u201d tactics of Jordan allies against his Republican opponents.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cFrankly, just based on what I\u2019ve been through \u2013 I can only speak to myself and what my staff has been through over the last 24 or 48 hours \u2013 it is obvious what the strategy has been: Attack, attack, attack. Attack the members who don\u2019t agree with you, attack them, beat them into submission,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n There have also been pro-Jordan robocalls targeting voters in Rep. Carlos Gimenez\u2019s district as well as other members\u2019 district, according to the Florida Republican\u2019s office. Gimenez confronted Jordan about it, but Jordan said he wasn\u2019t behind it, per his office.\n <\/p>\n

\n Opponents to the congressman\u2019s bid so far have included centrist Republicans concerned that the face of the House GOP would be a conservative hardliner, as well as lawmakers still furious at the small group of Republicans who forced out McCarthy and then opposed House Majority Leader Steve Scalise\u2019s bid for the gavel. Scalise initially defeated Jordan inside the GOP conference to become the speaker nominee, but later dropped out of the race amid opposition to his candidacy.\n <\/p>\n

\n Jordan, pressed by CNN on why he\u2019s staying in the race given pathway to 217 isn\u2019t getting any better, noted that McCarthy had a lot longer to build support for his speakership bid.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe continue to talk with colleagues, we feel good about those discussions. The key is we need to get to a speaker as soon as possible,\u201d he said. \u201cSpeaker McCarthy had a several month runway before the vote. Then when the vote happened, it was a whole week.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cSo we want to get there as quickly as we can,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd we\u2019ll continue to talk to our colleagues.\u201d\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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