“You need a speaker that you can trust, who will tell you candidly what they are going to do and then deliver on that. There may be differences on policy, but I don’t think there’s differences on quality of character with Jim Jordan. I think he can bridge the gap,” Biggs told Newsmax TV’s “Newline” Friday. …

“This town is a cartel town. It is controlled by power, whether it’s the K-Street lobbyists … the corporate left stream media that constitutes the una-party and they do not want anything that will contest that, expose it, and Jim Jordan might be the guy that can actually expose some of that so I think that’s why there’s fight there,” he told Newsmax.

[I like Jim Jordan, but I suspect that a number of House Republicans don’t like Biggs for helping to foment this leadership collapse. Will they go along with Biggs and essentially endorse the chaos he helped create? I suspect that Jordan will come up significantly short of 217 just on that basis alone. We’ll see. — Ed]