Several of the legislator’s supporters have posted phone numbers of GOP lawmakers they count as holdouts, encouraging followers to call the Capitol switchboard.
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Even after Representative Jim Jordan, the hard-right Ohio Republican, won his party’s nomination for the post Friday, he remained far short of the 217 votes he needed to win the gavel, with scores of his colleagues refusing to back him.
Scalise was expected to be the US House Speaker, but did not have enough votes. Jordan amassed the required 217 votes and will aim to fill the leadership vacuum.