"Offense, Not Defense": Jordan Crushes Scalise To Lead Shrunken GOP Into Subpoena War

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"Offense, Not Defense": Jordan Crushes Scalise To Lead Shrunken GOP Into Subpoena War House Republicans picked Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday to lead them into the…

House Republicans picked Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday to lead them into the minority, 106-73 over Majority Leader Steve Scalise in a secret ballot a week after a midterm wipeout handed Democrats their biggest House majority in decades, CBS reported. The Ohio Republican sold himself to colleagues as the man to take the incoming majority's investigations head on.

"I am battle-tested on the oversight front and I know the Democrats' playbook," Jordan wrote in a Nov. 4 letter to members, the day after the election. He told them what to expect: "Each Democrat-led committee will turn their full attention to investigating every facet of the Administration and private entities across the country."

"In these next two years, our job cannot be merely to spotlight how radical this new Democrat party is - offense, not defense, wins elections," he wrote. "For too long, we have operated without a clear plan to survive the hour or the day in front of us. That will not cut it against an emboldened and energetic Democrat majority."

After the vote he took no questions, saying only, "Over the next two years, House Republicans will fight for American families," according to CBS's live coverage.

The conference he inherits is a shadow of the one that held the gavel. Democrats had won 253 seats to Republicans' 167 with 15 races still uncalled, a net gain of 41, by NBC's count on Tuesday, and NBC's model projects a 259-176 House. As we noted the morning after, Democrats also flipped the Senate.

Speaker Mike Johnson, who said on Nov. 4 that he would not seek the top Republican post in the next Congress, called Jordan "a mentor" on Tuesday and would not say how he voted, calling both candidates "my brothers." Johnson said he would "take the oath in January" but would not commit to serving a full term, and offered one consolation: "It is easier to keep a group together when you're in the minority."

Scalise, in leadership since 2014, ran on his fundraising, telling colleagues he raised…

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