- Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Nick LaLota voted against Jim Jordan for speaker on Wednesday.
- Both said they received death threats soon after.
Two Republican representatives said they've received death threats since they voted against fellow GOP Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker of the House.
On Wednesday, after Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks cast her first vote against Jordan's candidacy after supporting him just a day before, she announced in a press release that her office received a "barrage of threatening calls" and that she "received credible death threats."
Additionally, freshman GOP Rep. Nick LaLota, who voted for former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin in both speaker votes, also shared a threat to X that he and his office received on Wednesday.
"My vote card belongs to me and the people of NY's First Congressional District," LaLota wrote. "I will not succumb to threats. Rather, I'll support a Speaker candidate who will fund the WTC Health Fund, Nat'l Flood Insurance and SALT, while keeping the gov't open + secure border & cut spending."
The threats against Miller-Meeks and LaLota arose a day after Politico reported that Republican Rep. Don Bacon and his wife, Angie, had received anonymous texts and emails urging the congressman to vote for Jordan or else get voted out.
In response to the series of threats and vitriol spewed at Miller-Meeks, LaLota, and Bacon in recent days, Jordan wrote online that he condemns "all threats against our colleagues."
"Stop," he wrote. "It's abhorrent."
Bacon acknowledged Jordan's comments on X after seeing them in an article from the Washington Post, simply noting "They are your supporters."
As it stands, the House is set to meet again on Thursday at noon, where a third round of voting for a House speaker is expected to occur. Due to the GOP's slim majority in the House, Jordan can't win if more than four Republicans don't vote for him.
That first occurred on Tuesday, when 18 Republicans voted for candidates other than Jordan and sunk his first speaker bid. One day later, that number rose to 20. As it doesn't appear that the number of Jordan detractors has vanished overnight, the likelihood of a Jordan speakership in the near future is quickly fading.