Anonymous numbers texted the wife of a GOP congressman, pressuring him to vote for Jim Jordan as speaker

Rep. Don Bacon is a Republican representative opposed to Rep. Jim Jordan's speakership bid.
Politico reported that he and his wife have received several anonymous messages in recent days.
The unsigned messages say Bacon won't get reelected if he continues to oppose Jordan.

The wife of a Republican congressman opposing Rep. Jim Jordan's candidacy for speaker of the House received anonymous text messages in recent days urging her husband to vote for Jordan or else get voted out.

Images of some of the messages to GOP Rep. Don Bacon's wife, Angie, were posted on the social media platform X on Tuesday evening by Politico reporter Olivia Beavers.

"Talk to your husband tell him to step up and be a leader and help the Republican Party get a speaker," one message reads. "There's too much going on in the world for all this going on in Republican Party you guys take five steps forward and then turn around take 20 steps backwards no wonder our party always ends up getting screwed over,"

"Your husband will not hold any political office ever again," wrote a detractor from a separate number. "What a disappoint and failure he is."

Bacon further told Politico in a statement that the couple also received several anonymous emails as well, passing along similar messages.

The vitriolic messages to Bacon and his family come as several prominent right-wing media hosts, like Steve Bannon and Sean Hannity, have adamantly pressed their followers to send messages to any GOP member opposing Jordan's candidacy.

An email obtained by Axios shows a producer of Sean Hannity's Fox News' television show prodding congressional staffers as to why their bosses were opposing Jordan amidst global chaos, while the Washington Post reported that Hannity also personally tried to speak with members against Jordan in an attempt to sway them.

As of Wednesday morning, Jordan's current chances of winning the speakership on the House's second day of voting appear slim after 20 Republican members voted for a different candidate just a day before. Due to the Republican Party's extremely slim majority in the House, Jordan can't afford more than four holdouts if he has any shot at succeeding.

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