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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, faces an unclear path to the speakership after securing the GOP nomination.<\/p>\n

In the chaotic fight to replace recently-ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Jordan has been making calls to shore up support for his bid after House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., the initial nominee, bowed out due to lacking support in the divided Republican caucus.<\/p>\n

However, Jordan does not necessarily need to get the required House majority to take the gavel. The House has elected a speaker a few times in history on a plurality rather than an outright majority.<\/p>\n

LEADING MODERATE WHO VOWED TO OPPOSE JORDAN FLIPS IN MAJOR VICTORY FOR SPEAKER NOMINEE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The House is allowed to decide how the speaker election is held, according to House Practice<\/a>, so changing the threshold is an option on the table.<\/p>\n

In fact, there have been two plurality elections to decide the House speaker in American history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 1856, during the 34th Congress ahead of the Civil War, the House faced a fractured chamber<\/a> after concessions and dividing lines over slavery had been burned into the sand.<\/p>\n

A fledgling Republican Party, a decimated Democratic Party, the nativist American (Know-Nothing) Party and a declining Whig Party could not decide on a top House lawmaker.<\/p>\n

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO VOTE ON NEW SPEAKER TUESDAY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

When voting began, 21 members received votes backing them for speaker on the first ballot, throwing the House into a deadlock that lasted two months.<\/p>\n

Amid the votes, American Party Rep. Felix <\/a>Zollicoffer <\/a>of Tennessee introduced and passed a House resolution having the three top candidates for speaker to “publicly state their opinions of Congress\u2019 recent actions on the spread of slavery to the western territories.”<\/p>\n

Even after the questioning session the House could not decide on a speaker.<\/p>\n

That deadlock was broken when the House voted to reduce the threshold to elect the speaker from the traditional simple majority to a plurality election.<\/p>\n

After 133 votes, Speaker Nathaniel Banks of the Know-Nothings was elected as speaker of the 34th Congress with 103 votes backing him.<\/p>\n

Before then, during the 31st Congress in 1849<\/a>, the House was without a speaker for 19 days with neither the Whigs and Democrats holding a House majority and the Free Soil Party splitting the votes further.<\/p>\n

The first ballot<\/a> was a split one that did not yield a speaker, leading to several weeks of elections to determine the leader of the House.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After 13 ballots, then-Rep. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee proposed a resolution to lower the speaker election threshold to a plurality as well as an amendment to ballot the election.<\/p>\n

The resolution and amendment passed, and Georgia Democrat Rep. Howell Cobb was elected speaker via plurality after 63 votes, three votes after the rules had been changed.<\/p>\n

The House Judiciary Committee chairman has made headway, flipping key no votes to support him, but there is still a real chance that his bid will be dashed on the House floor.<\/p>\n

Scalise faced a problem that Jordan is working to solve: getting the numbers up in a slim majority to propel him behind the gavel.<\/p>\n

Historically, there is precedent for a plurality speaker election, but the move is risky if the math does not add up.<\/p>\n

Any miscalculation on votes in a plurality election would run the risk of the GOP inadvertently handing the speakership to the Democrats, should GOP members break from the party.<\/p>\n

However, should the GOP need a nuclear option to choose a new speaker, historical precedent provides one.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital’s Aubrie Spady and Matteo Cina contributed reporting.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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