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Jordan can't control his caucus and can't even control his followers.
"...Several Republicans told reporters they had been subject to a pressure campaign by supporters of Mr Jordan, who lost a second vote for the gavel on Wednesday.
Mr Jordan, a right-wing Republican from Ohio, has condemned the threats.
A hardline conservative revolt ousted the last Speaker on 3 October.
A third vote to elect a Speaker may happen on Thursday, and Mr Jordan will need to win around more colleagues in his party to secure the 217 votes needed to win the job.
Mariannette Miller-Meeks, an Iowa Republican, wrote in a statement on Wednesday that she had "received credible death threats and a barrage of threatening calls" after voting for an alternative to Mr Jordan.
"One thing I cannot stomach, or support is a bully," she wrote.
Jim Jordan loses second vote in US House Speaker bid
Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican who is a particularly vocal opponent of Mr Jordan, provided texts to Politico that appeared to show his wife being harassed by a supporter of the would-be Speaker.
"Your husband will not hold any political office ever again," one of the anonymous messages read. "What a disappoint [sic] and failure he is."
Mr Jordan denied any involvement in the pressure campaign.
"No American should accost another for their beliefs," he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday evening. "We condemn all threats against our colleagues and it is imperative that we come together."
"Stop. It's abhorrent," he added...."