Republicans, Fox News Mock Jim Jordan’s Weird Press Conference

Congressman and (at the time of writing) thrice-failed Speaker wannabe Jim Jordan baffled his supporters, his opponents, and even Fox News when he held a strange, pointless, 8-minute-long press conference this morning.

The presser was presumably a preamble to a third floor vote for his Speakership—which he would subsequently fail.

Jordan began with an anecdote about the Wright brothers and how their experiments in aviation would lead to space travel. Though he suggested this was testament to the resilience of the American people, it was clearly intended to be a quiet analogy: Jim Jordan is Orville or Wilbur Wright (or perhaps both), his bid for House Speaker is their attempts to create an airplane, and like the Wrights, he will eventually succeed.

From there, Jordan claimed the American people have recognized the inability of both the White House and Senate to provide leadership and thus have turned to the House of Representatives, which is effectively inert because of a literal lack of leader—unlike the White House or Senate, who have President Biden and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer respectively.

Jordan then took a half dozen questions and mostly avoided giving direct answers.

When asked about his strategy for securing the Speakership, he merely emphasized that a Speaker is necessary. When asked if he’d managed to convert any defectors, he answered the same.

It was the rote answer he provided to questions about assisting Israel or taking up the President’s proposed $100 billion aid package, inadvertently conceding that though the President was working, the House was not—and cannot—until someone officially took Kevin McCarthy’s vacant chair.

When a reporter gave Jordan the opportunity to persuade holdouts like Congressman Ken Buck by disavowing lies that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, Jordan refused.

Jordan left the podium after some 8 minutes total. The hosts of Fox and Friends, covering the conference, publicly burst into laughter at its utter lack of purpose.

Jim Jordan has fallen so far that the network whose approval and platform he seeks the most is now openly mocking him.