The second round of the Speaker vote is postponed to Wednesday

The House of Representatives will hold a new vote to try to elect its speaker on Wednesday, October 18. In Tuesday's vote, Representative Jim Jordan barely obtained 200 votes, quite far from the 217 necessary to obtain the position.

On Monday, Jordan won several important endorsements from his party. Such as Congressman Mike Rogers, who had made it clear that he would not vote for Jordan but, after several conversations, publicly stated that he had changed his mind and would vote to support the nominee.

However, this Tuesday, 20 Republicans voted against Jordan, so he must continue having conversations to try for victory in a second vote scheduled for Wednesday at 11 a.m.

"We've already talked to some members who are going to vote with us on the second ballot," Jordan told The Hill.

With a divided party and several members still angry over Kevin McCarthy's oust from the speaker position, Jordan was highly unlikely to win a majority on the first vote. Some of the representatives took this round of voting as a punishing vote for the party's most conservative wing that caused McCarthy's departure. And perhaps their protest will last another vote or several more.

Other members of Congress, like Carlos Gimenez, state that they will definitely not vote for Jordan and insist that there is not much to talk about. However, Jordan has made significant progress in recent days, even with representatives who seemed quite reluctant to support him.

It took McCarthy 15 votes and many conversations with the party's most conservative wing to win House Speaker. It is now Jordan's turn to convince the party's moderates and obtain the speaker position during great tensions and international problems.