The House speaker's race hits an impasse as defeated GOP Rep. Jim Jordan wants to try again

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The House speaker's race hits an impasse as defeated GOP Rep. Jim Jordan wants to try again
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Rep. Jim Jordan says he's not giving up on his bid for House Speaker.

there's a sinking realization among Republicans that the House could remain endlessly stuck, out of service and without a leader for the foreseeable future.But there's a sinking realization that the House could remain endlessly stuck, out of service and without a leader for the foreseeable future as the Republican majority spirals deeper into dysfunction. The impasse has left some Republican lawmakers settling in for a protracted stretch without a House speaker.

"We’ll keep talking to members, keep working on it,” Jordan, a founding member of the hard-right Freedom Caucus, said after the vote.As Republicans upset and exhausted by the infighting retreated for private conversations, hundreds of demonstrators amassed outside the Capitol over the “The way out is that Jim Jordan has got to pull his name," said Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., who voted twice against him. “He’s going to have to call it quits.

The novel concept of boosting the interim speaker's role was gaining favor with a pair of high-profile Republicans: former GOP speakers Newt Gingrich and John Boehner.“All options are on the table to end the Republican civil war,” Jeffries said Wednesday. To win over his GOP colleagues, Jordan had relied on backing from Trump, the party's front-runner in the 2024 election to challenge President Joe Biden, and groups pressuring rank-and-file lawmakers for the vote. But they were not enough and in fact backfired on some.

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