Republicans dropped Rep. Jim Jordan on Friday as their nominee for House speaker, making the decision during a closed-door session after the hard-edged ally of Donald Trump failed badly on a third ballot for the gavel.

The blocked-House impasse deepening, Republicans have no realistic or workable plan to unite the fractured GOP majority, elect a new speaker and return to the work of Congress that has been languishing since hard-liners ousted Kevin McCarthy at the start of the month.

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    1 year ago

    Wait, I’m confused. I thought he wasn’t going to run a 3rd time? But he still ran and lost, and now the GOP is dropping him entirely from the running?

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      1 year ago

      Secret ballot - they were finding out what representatives really think about him by not doing it in public