If Jim Jordan Becomes Speaker

Playbook: “It’s hard to underplay the stakes. Electing a Speaker Jordan would mean installing a firm Donald Trump loyalist atop the House — one even more willing to embrace the former president’s desires and tactics than McCarthy was, a “significant player” in the plan to undo Joe Biden’s presidential victory.”

“It’s easy to imagine the House moving appropriations bills that would defund DOJ’s Trump probes or zero out various Biden Cabinet officials’ salaries. Or voting to impeach Biden. Or shutting down the government over policy fights with Democrats.”

“Jordan has virtually no relationships with key leaders he would be negotiating with on a regular basis. In addition to leading attack after attack on Biden, he’s led a cadre of conservatives that has long pummeled Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as an establishment pushover. And he’s had little to no dealings to speak of with Hakeem Jeffreis, the House’s top Democrat.”