House democrats has been answered. By our nominee for speaker, the gentleman from brooklyn, the leader of our House Democratic caucus, the honorable Hakeem Jeffries [ applause ] leader jeffries has answered our call, but the majoritys nominee is disconnected. Disconnected from the American People and their values. Maga extremism is designed to divide. And it has broken the republican party. Their nominees vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights of the American People. And hes got the record to prove it. The republican nominee has voted against healthcare for children, for veterans, even for 9 11 survivors. He has opposed lowering the cost of insulin repeatedly. He wants to cut Social Security and medicare. Dont take it from me, it was raised on the other side of the aisle, just this week, as a Selling Point to make him speaker. Over his 16 years in the house, the republican nominee has never supported a farm bill. What does that mean . What does that mean . It means he has turned his back on farmers, on rural communities, and the 11 million children who go to bed hungry in this country. [ applause ] the republican nominee wants a National Abortion ban, with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the health of a mother. We want to make our own healthcare decisions, in consultation with our families, our doctors, our faith, not with jim jordan [ applause ] the republican nominee plotted to overturn the 2020 election, traffics in misinformation, and is a true threat to our democracy and our constitution. I have had the privilege of working here in the peoples house for almost ten years. And ive gotten to know many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. And i know that you hear the same thing that i do. The American People expect us to Work Together on their behalf. [ applause ] it is not too late for the majority to choose a bipartisan path forward, to reopen the house, take yes for an answer. [ applause ] majority chooses to engage in a republican civil war that is threatening their own members, instead of engaging with us in the work of the American People is a day that weakens this institution and the standing of our country. We need a speaker who will govern through consensus, not conflict. We need a speaker worthy of wielding that gavel. A leader who will defend democracy, not degrade it. More than ever, we need proven patriotic people first leadership. And that is why i am proud to nominate Hakeem Jeffries as speaker of the house. [ applause ] the clerk will now call the roll. Adams. Hakeem jeffries. Jeffries. Aderholt. Jordan. Aguilar. Jeffries. Alford. Jim jordan. Jordan. Allen. Jordan jordan. Allred. Hakeem jeffries. Jeffries. Amodei. Jordan. Jordan. Armstrong. Jordan. Jordan. Arrington. Jordan. Auchincloss. Jeffries. Jeffries. Babin. Jim jordan. Jordan. Bacon. Patrick mchenry. Mchenry. Baird. Jordan. Jordan. Balderson. Jordan. Jordan. Balint. Jeffries. Jeffries. 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Lets go right to steve kornacki, that has been monitoring the vote. Steve . Yeah, again, what we have been monitoring here, these are the republicans who previously voted against jim jordan in the last ballot, has he won any of them over . So far six of them have voted, they have all voted against jordan, just based on the numbers from that quorum call that was taken before this vote, he could only afford five defections. The sixth means he has no mathematical path if everybody continues to vote as expected. That quorum call and there you go, jake elsie from texas, now seven have been cast, all antijordan. There is no path for jordan to win the speakership on this ballot. Not a surprise and the question now just becomes as you look down this list, is he going to win over any of these other names who have previously been voted against him. The only positive thing, if you can say positive thing for jordan so far is as of yet there are no new no votes against jordan. There are a couple of members who we were questioning, wondering early if they might flip on this ballot. They havent. There still are some were waiting on and theyre going to be coming up pretty soon here. In fact, Brian Fitzpatrick from pennsylvania is one of them. I think were four votes away from Brian Fitzpatrick voting. So, take a listen here for fitzpatrick. Thats one who looked like he could flip. Okay. So we will keep listening. Well let everybody know if fitzpatrick also flips. But the bottom line here is that it doesnt look like the math is there for jordan at this point. Nothing is a done deal until the vote is official. But, ali, youre there on capitol hill, and you reported earlier that the expectation today is that jordan isnt likely to pick up new support. Is that still what youre hearing or could there be a surprise here . Reporter yes, thats definitely still what were operating under, not the idea that jordan is going to lose this vote, which he is, but the margin by which hes going to lose it. Im looking down at my phone, because steve was right to call out Brian Fitzpatrick, who, of course, has now just voted for patrick mchenry. Thats another loss in the jordan column. But thats also not the only new no vote that were expecting. I spoke to new york congressman Mark Molinaro on his way into the chamber, he said he was fine to vote for jordan for the first two rounds, but that he told the jordan team he was going to be a no on this round. He wants his conference to once again as we have seen them do before, go Behind Closed Doors and try to find someone else to be speaker. Molinaro was one of those who was at one point backing the idea of empowering mchenry in bipartisan fashion. He says hes still on board for that, but it is clear the rest of his conference is not. Ill keep looking down just to make sure there is not any new no votes, but as we get later into the alphabet, i see this as a vitaly, im look at David Valadao of california. As we were watching the floor, he was huddled by people who are previously votes against jordan, and it is an interesting point of internal politics here, you got Kevin Mccarthy of the california delegation, giving that nominating speech for jordan, publicly, trying to show his support for the guy who is the speaker designate, valadao is a close and long time ally of mccarthy. But valadao could still flip. Hes another one of those names were watching to go from the jordan yes column potentially to go to the no column. I say potentially. These are just some of the members were looking at because members of this conference have warned me and some of my colleagues that we could see as many as four or five names flip on this ballot, and i think just to circle back on the entire idea behind this, for molinari, i said youve been for jordan for two rounds, why would you change your mind now when youre stressing to us the conference needs to come together for a speaker. Shouldnt you be part of the coming together that jordan is calling for . He said he doesnt think that jordan has the votes and the reason hes flipping to no now is to show there is the very opposite of the momentum that jordan is trying to show. Jordan would love to show hes got an upward trending momentum of support. Instead, molinaro will lend to the idea he has the very opposite of that, and what it does is neutralize the idea that jordan is in the same place as mccarthy. Technically around the numbers, if you look back to january, jordan is kind of close to where mccarthy was. But mccarthy was always able to show static or consistent positive progress in the direction of his magic number. Jordan has been doing the opposite this entire time. And that spells bad news for him. And so, with us now is republican strategist and msnbc political analyst Susan Del Percio and former democratic congressman max rose of new york. Also joining the conversation is msnbc political analyst brendan buck, former Senior Adviser to house speakers john boehner and paul ryan. So, guys, as we watch this vote tick up, we just learned another person who was a supporter of jordan in one of the first or second rounds is no longer, fitzpatrick. Brendan, youre new to the conversation. What is your reaction to what we just saw . Yeah, this is clearly not going to work out for jim jordan. I think the real issue right now is that you have a bunch of jordan supporters who have really defined their time in congress by refusing to accept when we hit bottom, when we hit the end of a road. Their entire mantra is that if you just fight harder, you can somehow win. And at this point you need jim jordan to say i cant get there. I need to i need to step down. But he has built himself personally and his entire brand and all the people around him never like to give in, they never like to quit. I fear that at some point whenever he does realize he cant do this anymore, hes going to go back to jim jordan ing to start sabotaging s im things, im going to start blowing things up. I think we can dispose of the idea that jim jordan is going to be speaker. The question is, what does jim jordan do after this . We saw that the effort to empower mchenry failed because of a lot of blowback in the conference. I fear that if the next pivot is to lets find Somebody Else, jim jordan is going to sabotage whoever that is. This may be going on for quite a while. Absolutely right, no momentum here is big and it is very clear that the moderates, the centrists are sick of the bullying and sending a message they wont be bullied anymore. Thats a really helpful sign for the future of the conference. Just looking at mccarthys speech, which surprised many, i guess, by its intensity and then also the fact that mchenry is getting less votes than he has in the past. So the mchenry option seems kind of at least for now closed. How do you see this . First of all, look, What Mccarthy did was shocking. He stood up and said, ladies and gentlemen, i clearly was not crazy enough to be your speaker, but i have just the guy for you. Ive got maga incarnate jim jordan to which they all resoundedly cheered. But he never had the votes. Everyone knew, we all knew he never had the votes, so why are they doing what theyre doing . I believe that theyre doing this because they have got to show their maga base that theyre trying. They have to show their maga base that the closest thing to donald trump in the House Of Representatives, which is jim jordan, theyre doing everything they can to make him speaker, and so theyll continue doing this until they are appeased and then theyre going to have to find some other option. It will not be mchenry because unless the republicans are willing to be adults and actually treat the democrats as equal partners, in building out this coalition, it is going to be a dark horse. And it might be zeldin, it might be someone else. Zeldin is not even in congress right now, by the way. Sure. Doesnt have to be. Of course. To be fair, hes only getting new york delegation a thousand percent. It may be somebody not getting any votes. It may be somebody who doesnt know where the bathrooms are, but it has got to be someone that has a caucus, and they realize can check the basic metrics of what a speaker needs to do and that is three things, the base, money, and purple seats. The question is it is that thesis is true, is there enough that you can say or do to that base that will get them to accept whatever may come forward . Sure. It has to be very simple. And they actually this is the one thing that they have done in an organized fashion as a caucus, and that is bring the extremists in to the tent. Remember, jim jordan got his start in congress as the rabblerouser outside of the caucus that just wanted to set fire to every single institutional norm and they said, rather than do that on the outside, were going to make you a leader on the inside and the second jim jordan says thats okay, and his maga extremist base says thats okay, from Steve Bannons podcast, to all the other Flame Throwers they have at their disposal, theyll begin on the course. But they got to find someone, just like every speaker, who can somehow unify their base as well as the swing voters, as well as the money interests. And they have yet to figure that out. Susan, well go back to steve for a moment because there was another person, steve, i understand who flipped from jordan to Somebody Else . No. It is just another vote this is john james from michigan. He just hes continued to vote against jim jordan, so now you have, again, every previous antijordan vote now, now down to the js, john james continues to vote against him. Youve got mike kelly coming up next. Alphabetically in terms of previous antijordan votes. Kelly from a very pro trump district, around erie, pennsylvania. Jen kiggans will be shortly after. Not expecting any changes here. The question, i believe was that jim jordan voting . Dave joyce is about to vote. Let me tell you how he votes. Dave joyce from ohio just voted for jim jordan. If you remember yesterday, dave joyce was pushing that resolution to extend Patrick Mchenrys tenure as house speaker. So there was even some question of how he might vote here. But hes continued to vote for jim jordan on that last one. Tom kaine from new jersey, one of the ultimate swing stricts, hes voted for jordan twice, he voted for he just switched his vote. There is another change. So we now have two previous antijordan previous projordan votes who flipped. Brian fitzpatrick from bucks county, pennsylvania, that is a Swing District that joe biden carried, and now i can show you, two is the number, tom kaine jr. , a freshman republican, the son of the former governor of new jersey, he barely won his seat in 2022, top democratic target in the upcoming 24 elections. Democrats itching to use his two votes against him. But now hes switched. He cast his vote for Kevin Mccarthy. Now, again, it was 22 no votes last time around for jordan. So far all the noes are holding. There you go again. Mike kelly continues to hold out. This would be if these all hold and so far with the two additional ones that would be 24 no votes. And, again, you were hearing it there, you know, there are more still who we are waiting on and im looking at the list here, young kim from california, a Swing District, voting right now, she voted for jordan twice and she votes for jordan a third time. From a very close district. Nick lalota from long island, a new yorker holding out, his name is going to be called any minute here. Hes voted for lee zeldin twice. No indication thats going to change. We have two so far who flipped from being for jordan and now against him and none flipped back from being against jordan to joining his camp. People like valadao of california, talk about a Swing District, hes always just either winning or they have to go for a second vote. He has so far been with jordan. That is someone who could flip. Absolutely. So valadao comes from the Central Valley of california. This is a district that voted for joe biden by 13 points. And valadao had lost his seat and won it back. There was another surprise earlier, mike garcia who comes from a similar dis