Ken Buck says he received death threats over his speaker vote

WASHINGTON D.C., DC — Republican U.S. Rep Ken Buck said Thursday that he received four death threats and has been evicted from a congressional office in his district for opposing U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s bid for House speaker as the GOP-controlled chamber went another day without electing a leader.

Buck is one of 24 House Republicans who voted for someone other than Jordan this week in two inconclusive rounds of balloting that left the Ohio Republican short of the majority required to take the gavel.

The five-term lawmaker from Windsor told NBC News that he wasn’t going to change his vote and suggested that Jordan end his candidacy, adding that the latter “may need another vote to be convinced that he’s not going to get there.”

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