Daniel Wolfram
Meet the new House minority leader — almost the same as the last one.
Donald Trump has had one of the worst weeks an American president has experienced in modern times.
Last Tuesday, his Republican Party got humiliated at the ballot box during the midterm elections. That was after Trump had crisscrossed the country and urged Americans to vote as if he were on the ballot. Unfortunately for Trump, they did.
The GOP lost both chambers of Congress. So naturally, a new House Minority Leader had to be chosen after Mike Johnson, the previous one, did not seek reelection.
One might have thought the Republicans would have learned something since the election was just this Tuesday.
Instead, they elected a lawmaker who is a known Trump ideologue and loyalist.
New Minority Leader has downplayed Trump’s gas prices
House Republicans chose Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan as their new minority leader yesterday.
Jordan is a far-right politician and a big Trump supporter who has carried much of his water throughout his presidencies.
He once defied a congressional subpoena to testify about the January 6 insurrection. And he is willing to defend Trump’s policies by any means necessary.
When CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked him about Trump’s unfulfilled promise that if the American people reelected him, then gas prices would get under $2, Jordan just shrugged the question off:
“Well, gas prices were coming down, until we had to deal with this situation [the war in Iran], but you know, that’s life!”
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A lot of criticism of Jim Jordan
Many Washington insiders and politicians around Capitol Hill were befuddled that the GOP had chosen Jim Jordan as the new Minority Leader.
For many, it shows that the GOP has not learned its lesson following Tuesday’s historic loss, choosing instead to stay the course and vote for a MAGA faithful.
The outgoing speaker, Mike Johnson, did not share those same criticisms even after he was ousted. He thought electing Jordan was a smart choice.
“I think the election of Jim Jordan is a sign of members’ confidence in him. […] He’s an honest broker. He’s a good man. He’s a fighter. And I think that is the signal that is being sent here.”
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But Jordan is not without his baggage. Back in Ohio, he has faced multiple allegations from his time as an assistant wrestling coach of repeatedly ignoring sexual abuse by a team doctor, Richard Strauss.
“To say that [Jordan] knew nothing, that nothing ever happened, it’s a flat-out lie,” former Ohio State wrestler Dan Ritchie said in a documentary called “Surviving Ohio State.”
