WASHINGTON — After a blue tidal wave swept them from power, House Republicans elected a new GOP leader Tuesday to replace outgoing Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
\n\nHouse Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio, defeated Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana, a close Johnson ally, for minority leader, two Republican lawmakers said. The vote was held by secret ballot behind closed doors.
\n\nThe vote was 106-73, the two lawmakers in the room said.
\n\n“Over the next two years, House Republicans will fight for American families,” Jordan told reporters after his victory. “When Democrats offer more government, we’ll offer more freedom, and we will bring that fight in committee, on the floor and on the stump every single day.”
\n\nJordan is a fervent supporter of President Donald Trump and had pitched to GOP colleagues that his past role chairing the Oversight Committee would allow him to combat the spate of investigations newly empowered Democrats have promised to launch into Trump’s administration, family and business ventures.
\n\n“I am battle-tested on the oversight front and I know the Democrats’ playbook,” he wrote to his colleagues.
\n\nJordan’s victory signals that House Republicans wanted a clean break from the Johnson political apparatus following last week’s…
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