House Republicans Select Jim Jordan as Their New Leader After Sweeping Midterm Losses

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Jordan beat out Majority Leader Steve Scalise for the top House GOP position in the next Congress after Speaker Mike Johnson said he would not seek the role.

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio will become the next House Minority Leader after beating out the party’s current Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana for the position.

Jordan, a hard-line conservative and Trump ally who’s served in Congress for nearly two decades and currently chairs the House Judiciary Committee, secured the role in a secret ballot vote of 106-73.

The Ohio lawmaker announced his bid for the top Republican position in the lower chamber in the next Congress after Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said that he would not run for the role in the aftermath of a blue wave that shifted control of both chambers to Democrats.

“In these next two years, our job cannot be merely to spotlight how radical this new Democrat party is—offense, not defense, wins elections,” Jordan said in a letter to colleagues a day after Democrats scored a series of sweeping victories in the midterms. “Republican policies prioritize making Americans' neighborhoods safer, keeping more money in their pockets, and protecting enduring American values and freedoms. To restore our majority, we must restore voters' faith in our ability to deliver on these principles.”

He warned that Democrats would “wreak havoc on every sector of our economy” and “turn their full attention to investigating every facet of the Administration and private entities across the country.”

Jordan called himself “battle-tested on the oversight front,” adding, “I know the Democrats' playbook.”

Scalise announced that he would run for House Minority Leader on the same day as Jordan.

“It is more important now than ever for us to emerge from this stronger and united because the stakes couldn’t be higher,” Scalise wrote in a letter to colleagues. “The socialists are coming to Washington with a radical agenda that threatens the America we hold dear … The House Republican Conference must be the first line of defense in this crucial battle, and we must fight like our way of life depends on it—because it does.”

Scalise, who has…

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