Lisa Desjardins:
That depends on who you ask.
I think it was a bigger total than many Jordan allies were expecting. Let's look at exactly what that vote total looked like. As you say, he received 200 votes, but there were 20 Republicans who voted for someone else. And there were a slew of other ideas there, including Steve Scalise, the former nominee for speaker who lost just last week.
Then we see Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader, receiving the most votes of anyone today, 212 votes. So, indeed, that is a problem. We know that at least one of those no-votes for Jordan has switched tonight to Jordan, but there are also people, I'm told, who may be going the other way, a very difficult moment for Jim Jordan, and also this, tonight, a strange kind of tension, Geoff.
I have reporting that the Jordan camp and some allied with Steve Scalise are now shooting kind of barbs at each other. At a time when Jim Jordan needs to be broadening the tent, he's in sort of a skirmish at the moment with Steve Scalise.
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