The Trump loyalist has faced a revolt within his own party.
Jim Jordan looks to be failing again in a third ballot for the House of Representatives speaker’s gavel, rejected by a string of more mainstream Republicans who warned the ally of Donald Trump that no threats or promises could win their support.
Drawing on his Ohio roots, the far-right Mr Jordan, who is popular with the party’s activist base of voters, positioned his long-shot campaign alongside the history of American innovators including the Wright brothers, urging his colleagues to elect him to the speakership.After two failed votes, Mr Jordan’s third attempt at the House gavel is not expected to end in success either.
But more than two weeks into the stalemate that has shut down the US House, leaving a seat of American democracy severely hobbled at a time of challenges at home and abroad, the House Republican majority appears to have no idea how to end the political turmoil and get back to work. Mr Jordan had backed the temporary speaker plan as a way to allow more time to shore up support in his own reach for the gavel.Next steps remain uncertain as frustrated Republicans predict the House could essentially stay closed for the foreseeable future – perhaps until the mid-November deadline for congress to approve funding or risk a federal government shutdown.
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