{"id":19361,"date":"2023-10-21T04:17:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T09:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=19361"},"modified":"2023-10-21T04:17:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T09:17:18","slug":"republicans-are-facing-death-threats-as-the-election-for-speaker-gets-mired-in-personal-feuds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=19361","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are facing death threats as the election for speaker gets mired in personal feuds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 It was the thing that was supposed to make Rep.&nbsp;Jim Jordan&nbsp;the 56th speaker of the House.<br>An onslaught of pressure from the Republican Party base, allies predicted, would compel the GOP\u2019s moderate and establishment members to support Jordan, a hero of the far-right, and help him&nbsp;secure the votes&nbsp;for the gavel.<br>But as the pressure campaign devolved this week into death threats against lawmakers and their families, something unexpected happened: Positions hardened, and a ragtag coalition of roughly 20 House Republicans rose up to&nbsp;deny&nbsp;Jordan the speakership.<br>In doing so, they defied a belief of many in Washington \u2014 that moderates have no backbone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/house-speaker-jim-jordan-threats-54eeecef0188edfcb9903e45019f190f\">apnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 It was the thing that was supposed to make Rep.&nbsp;Jim Jordan&nbsp;the 56th speaker of the House.An onslaught of pressure from the Republican Party base, allies predicted, would compel the GOP\u2019s moderate and establishment members to support Jordan, a hero of the far-right, and help him&nbsp;secure the votes&nbsp;for the gavel.But as the pressure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23550,22779,23551],"class_list":["post-19361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-caught-in-personal-grudges","tag-republican-party","tag-speaker-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19363,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361\/revisions\/19363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}