Jordan Faces Do-or-Die Week: Still Needs 15 or More Votes

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, worked tirelessly over the weekend to line up the votes for a Tuesday floor vote for the speakership.

But several sources close to his effort say his team says they are 15 to 19 votes short of getting to the magic 217.

Some believe the gap is even bigger. Jordan lost in the secret ballot by 55 votes to relatively unknown Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga.

Now Team Jordan wants to bring the vote to the floor. The floor vote is public, and his supporters say there will be significant pressure on Republicans to vote for Jordan.

Even former President Donald Trump has quietly been calling on-the-fence members to lock down a Jordan vote.

But Jordan faces a strong anti-Jordan group that "want anybody but Jim," as one House member explained to me.