Colorado U.S. Rep. Ken Buck was among 20 House Republicans who refused to back U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan as House speaker on Tuesday amid increasing calls from Democrats to reach a bipartisan deal so the chamber can conduct business.

The state’s two other Republican House members, U.S. Reps. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs and Lauren Boebert of Garfield County, voted for Jordan, while all five Colorado Democrats voted for their party’s leader, Hakeem Jeffries of New York.

Jordan received 200 votes to Jeffries’ 212, with 20 votes going to an assortment of other Republicans, leaving no one with the 217-vote majority required to secure the House’s top job.

The result means the House is heading into a third week without a speaker, following former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Oct. 3 ouster from the position.

Buck was the only Republican to vote both to fire McCarthy and to prevent Jordan from taking the job.

After scrambling to persuade holdouts to switch their votes through the afternoon, Jordan postponed a second vote to Wednesday morning. While his allies expressed confidence the Ohio Republican can win over converts, Buck told MSNBC that he believes Jordan will lose even more votes in the next round.

Buck cast his vote for speaker for House Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota, later joking that the vote was a sign that he wasn’t fond of Emmer since he wouldn’t wish “the worst job in America” on anyone, much less his “good friend.”

Unlike several of the Republicans who voted against Jordan, who had expressed confidence before the vote that he had the gavel in the bag, Buck’s opposition wasn’t a surprise.

“I told Jim tonight I’m a ‘no,'” Buck said Monday night on CNN after meeting with Jordan, citing as dealbreakers the latter’s refusal to acknowledge that Joe Biden won the 2020 election and uncertain position on holding a House vote on aid to Ukraine.

Added Buck: “I think it’s really important that the Republican Party state unequivocally that President Trump lost the 2020 election.”

On Tuesday after the vote, Buck told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he fears the GOP majority will be at risk in next year’s election if the party has as leaders “someone who was involved in the activities surrounding Jan. 6,” pointing to both former President Donald Trump and Jordan.

“There’s no way we win the majority if the message we send to the American people is we believe the election was stolen and we believe that Jan. 6 was OK, was a tour of the Capitol,” Buck said.

Boebert and Lamborn both declared their support for Jordan before the vote.

“Going into today, just remember that there is far more that unites the Republican Party than divides us,” Boebert tweeted. “We’re here to work for the people. Let’s act like it!”

Democratic U.S. Rep. Jason Crow of Aurora mocked Boebert’s proclamation after the GOP splintered and failed to elect a speaker.

“Umm I’m pretty sure that’s not true,” he posted in response to her tweet.

Later, Crow summed up the day’s proceedings.

“I just took my 16th vote for House Speaker in the last 10 months,” he tweeted, referring to the 15 votes it took to elect McCarthy in January in the face of opposition from some Republicans, including Boebert.

“Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results,” he added. “This dysfunction won’t stop until Republicans choose a bipartisan path forward.”

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, laid out her party’s complaints about Jordan before the vote in a statement that included a plea to work with Democrats to resolve the impasse.

“It’s a shame that House Republicans are once again shrugging off bipartisanship to embrace extremism – especially given the domestic and international crises we’re facing,” she said.

“There is nothing in the entirety of Jim Jordan’s record that indicates he can put the good of the country over partisan politics. And, if Republicans elevate him to Speaker of the House, I fear he could do lasting harm to this institution and to our nation.”

The speaker fight spilled over into one of the state’s high-profile GOP primary races when Boebert’s campaign manager called out her Republican challenger, Jeff Hurd, who told Colorado Politics through a campaign spokesman that he wouldn’t have backed Jordan on Tuesday and would have instead voted for GOP leader Steve Scalise. Hurd’s spokesman added that Hurd wouldn’t have voted to boot McCarthy in the first place.

“Opposing @Jim_Jordan at this stage is pretty noteworthy for grassroots conservatives,” tweeted Drew Sexton, linking to a posts describing Hurd’s position.

Republican candidates hoping to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, the state’s other battleground seat, also weighed in.

A spokesman for state Rep. Gabe Evans said the Fort Lupton Republican would have voted for Jordan on Tuesday.

“The American people need Congress to do its job, and that can’t be done without a speaker,” Alan Philp told Colorado Politics in a text message. “Gabe supports getting a Republican speaker elected as fast as possible.”

Weld County Commissioner Scott James, who is facing Evans in the GOP primary, trained his criticism on Caraveo for voting with every other Democrat to remove McCarthy two weeks ago.

“We’re a month away from another government shutdown, but thanks to @YadiraCaraveo’s vote to throw Washington into greater dysfunction, the House has been at a complete standstill,” James tweeted.

James said in a text message to Colorado Politics sent via a spokeswoman that he would vote for Jordan “just like I would have voted for Speaker McCarthy because we need to secure the border, help Israel, cut spending, and keep the government open.”