Washington — Rep. Nancy Mace mentioned Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is her decide to be the following Home speaker after she was amongst a small contingent of Republicans who voted to oust Kevin McCarthy from the function final week.
“I’m going to be supporting Jim Jordan for speaker,” the South Carolina Republican informed “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
She cited Jordan’s “work ethic” and “his means to simply run circles round everybody close to coverage and pushing ahead.”
“We have been one of many least productive Congresses inside 30 years and he’ll be a workhorse for our nation,” she mentioned.
Home Majority Chief Steve Scalise of Louisiana can be working to switch McCarthy. It is unclear if there’s sufficient of a consensus inside a fractured Republican convention for both Scalise or Jordan to simply win the gavel.
McCarthy’s ouster was the primary time in U.S. historical past a Home speaker has been eliminated in a no-confidence vote after eight Republican detractorstogether with Mace, and all Democrats voted in opposition to him.
“I desire a speaker who will preserve their phrase and who will get the job accomplished,” Mace mentioned.
Since her vote to oust McCarthy, Mace mentioned she’s being “threatened” by her Republican colleagues to be faraway from committees and the convention.
“I need to use this as a possibility to say I am prepared to work with anybody who’s prepared to work with me,” she mentioned.
“Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan requested Mace, who has been outspoken about defending victims of sexual assault, whether or not previous allegations about Jordan turning a blind eye to sexual abuse on the Ohio State wrestling staff when he was coach gave her any pause.
“I am not acquainted or conscious with that,” Mace mentioned. “He is not indicted on something that I am conscious of. I do not know something and might’t communicate to that.”
Brennan additionally requested Mace to reply to a latest assertion made by former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who performed a key function on the Home Jan. 6 committeeduring which she warned that if Jordan is elected speaker “there would now not be any doable technique to argue {that a} group of elected Republicans might be counted on to defend the Structure.”
“There’s going to be all types of points that we agree on and disagree on,” Mace mentioned, recalling that she denounced GOP efforts to overturn the 2020 election outcomes.