Fox’s Brit Hume Chuckles at Would-Be Speaker Jim Jordan’s ‘Aggressive’ Reputation: ‘Word That Comes to Mind… Is Not Uniter’

Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume said Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) efforts to be the next speaker of the House may be hurt by his pugnaciousness.

The House has been speaker-less for two weeks after a majority of voting members agreed to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the job. Last week, an effort to appoint House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) failed when he could not get enough votes.

“I suppose that Jordan’s best asset is the world situation and the fact that this embarrassing absence of a speaker has gone on now for quite some time,” Hume said on Monday’s Special Report on Fox News. After all, he had what – 99 votes against him when he was nominated… [That] suggests that, you know, there are a lot of people that don’t particularly want him to be the speaker.”

Hume then called Jordan an “insurgent.”

“He’s not somebody who you would ordinarily think would be a natural to be speaker,” he said. “He’s an insurgent, always has been. You know, he expresses that in part by the fact you see him walking around always in shirt sleeves. Never with a jacket or almost never. You see the kind of a questioner he is in the hearings that he heads as head of the Judiciary Committee and other investigative assignments he’s had. And he’s very aggressive. He’s smart. Very tough with people.”

The analyst added that Jordan is a divisive figure.

“The word that comes to mind when you think about Jim Jordan is not ‘uniter,'” he said chuckling. “That’s just not what he’s ever particularly been. He has a following for sure, and popular on the new right. I think he’s got some work to do if he thinks he’s gonna get this job.

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