'Everybody’s gotta grow up': GOP rep explains what’s 'killing' party in speakership fight

On Sunday's episode of CNN's State of the Union, United States Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) shared his thoughts with host Jake Tapper on whether House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has a chance at winning the speakership.

"It seems like none of them will support him," Tapper said to Crenshaw, referring to House Republicans' failure to unite behind Jordan. "And some of them don't want to reward the members of Congress who have prompted this mess, who are part of the eight that got rid of [ex-House Speaker Kevin] McCarthy (R-CA), or part of the 20 who opposed the more conservative spending bill. You know who I'm talking about. Do you think Jordan is going to be able to get 217? Because it doesn't sound like from my reporting that he's going to."

Crenshaw replied, "Nothing's impossible, but it's going to be really, really difficult, based on what I'm hearing. I don't have a good read on what every single member is thinking. As you said, there's a lot of different reasons with different members. It's impossible for any member of our conference to get 217 true believers — 217 people who truly think you're the best, right? So we have a democratic process for a reason. You have a race ,and then somebody wins a majority. It's like a primary election. And I tell people all the time, 'If you don't like your primary candidate as a Republican, you don't go voting for the Democrat in the general election.' Democrats, of course, don't do it either. And that's how this is supposed to run."

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The Texas lawmaker continued, "Like i said, we've gotten away from that basic principle, and that's really killing us right now. So what I would really recommend to Jordan's allies, too, is a lot of them have mounted this high pressure campaign. They're going to whip up Twitter against the people who are against Jordan. That is the dumbest way to support Jordan. 'I'm supporting Jordan. I'm going to vote for Jordan.' As someone who wants Jim Jordan, the dumbest thing you can do is to continue pissing off those people and entrench them. When I ask people who are taking that tact, I'm like, 'Did that work on you, when you were one of the 20 against McCarthy and everybody was bashing you? Did that entrench you, or did that make you see the light?' Come on, people.

He emphasized, "Everybody's gotta grow up. Get it together. If there's differences, let's sort them out. I don't think we should take it to the floor or have that play out. You know, people are like, 'It's going to be more public, and then we can have pressure.' It's already pretty public. It's not necessary at this point. So, you know, we need to have cool heads prevail, talk about it, see what people want. See what has made people angry. And let's see if Jordan can be the leader we need him to be, and help people through those issues."

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