“Just so there’s no surprises: Jordan will likely have FEWER votes today than yesterday – as I expected. This is the fight – which Jim Jordan represents – to end the status quo, and it ain’t easy… Stay strong and keep praying,” tweeted Freedom Caucasians leader Scott Perry on Wednesday just ahead of the second vote for the wrestling freak’s almost certainly doomed speakership.
Meanwhile Florida Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, a Steve Scalise ally whose name we’ve definitely seen misspelled as “Diaz-Blart,” told Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman that he’s working on empowering current Speaker pro-tempore Patrick McHenry to have the full powers of the office, saying “there’s a consensus that we need to, in the meantime, have a process where we can move legislation forward to get the conservative agenda back on track that has been derailed.”