{"id":212204,"date":"2026-11-10T21:28:41","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=212204"},"modified":"2026-11-10T21:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:28:42","slug":"jordan-elected-house-minority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/11\/10\/jordan-elected-house-minority-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan elected House Minority Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON DC &#8212; U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) has won the race to serve as House Minority Leader as Republicans prepares for a new role in the minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordan, who serves as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, defeated Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana 106-73 in a secret-ballot election of Republicans who will serve in the next Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jordan, 62, represents Ohio\u2019s 4 Congressional District, which in 2027 will include Van Wert and Mercer counties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff WASHINGTON DC &#8212; U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) has won the race to serve as House Minority Leader as Republicans prepares for a new role in the minority. Jordan, who serves as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, defeated Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana 106-73 in a secret-ballot election of Republicans who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-18 01:21:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212205,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212204\/revisions\/212205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}