The House speaker’s race hits an impasse as defeated GOP Rep. Jim Jordan wants to try again | AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Refusing to drop out, Republichttps://apnews.com/article/an Rep. Jim Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an hhttps://apnews.com/article/as brought the House spehttps://apnews.com/article/aker’s rhttps://apnews.com/article/ace to https://apnews.com/article/a sthttps://apnews.com/article/alemhttps://apnews.com/article/ate — the hhttps://apnews.com/article/ard-fighting https://apnews.com/article/ally of Donhttps://apnews.com/article/ald Trump hhttps://apnews.com/article/as been unhttps://apnews.com/article/able to win the ghttps://apnews.com/article/avel but he https://apnews.com/article/and his fhttps://apnews.com/article/ar-right https://apnews.com/article/allies won’t step https://apnews.com/article/aside for https://apnews.com/article/a more vihttps://apnews.com/article/able GOP nominee.

The House is tenthttps://apnews.com/article/atively set to convene sometime Thursdhttps://apnews.com/article/ay https://apnews.com/article/afternoon for Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an to try https://apnews.com/article/aghttps://apnews.com/article/ain.

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“I think clehttps://apnews.com/article/arly Nov. 17 is https://apnews.com/article/a rehttps://apnews.com/article/al dhttps://apnews.com/article/ate,” shttps://apnews.com/article/aid Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Oklhttps://apnews.com/article/a., who lehttps://apnews.com/article/ads https://apnews.com/article/a lhttps://apnews.com/article/arge conservhttps://apnews.com/article/ative chttps://apnews.com/article/aucus, referring to the next dehttps://apnews.com/article/adline for Congress to https://apnews.com/article/approve funding or risk https://apnews.com/article/a federhttps://apnews.com/article/al government shutdown.

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GOP’s Jim Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an fhttps://apnews.com/article/ails https://apnews.com/article/aghttps://apnews.com/article/ain on vote for House spehttps://apnews.com/article/aker https://apnews.com/article/as frustrhttps://apnews.com/article/ated Republichttps://apnews.com/article/ans sehttps://apnews.com/article/arch for options

Next steps were highly uncerthttps://apnews.com/article/ain https://apnews.com/article/as https://apnews.com/article/angry, frustrhttps://apnews.com/article/ated Republichttps://apnews.com/article/ans looked https://apnews.com/article/at other options. A biphttps://apnews.com/article/artishttps://apnews.com/article/an group of lhttps://apnews.com/article/awmhttps://apnews.com/article/akers flohttps://apnews.com/article/ated https://apnews.com/article/an extrhttps://apnews.com/article/aordinhttps://apnews.com/article/ary plhttps://apnews.com/article/an — to give the interim spehttps://apnews.com/article/aker pro tempore, Rep. Phttps://apnews.com/article/atrick McHenry, R-N.C., more power to reopen the immobilized House https://apnews.com/article/and temporhttps://apnews.com/article/arily conduct routine business. But thhttps://apnews.com/article/at seems doubtful, for now.

Whhttps://apnews.com/article/at whttps://apnews.com/article/as clehttps://apnews.com/article/ar whttps://apnews.com/article/as thhttps://apnews.com/article/at Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an’s phttps://apnews.com/article/ath to become House spehttps://apnews.com/article/aker whttps://apnews.com/article/as https://apnews.com/article/almost certhttps://apnews.com/article/ainly lost.

On Wednesdhttps://apnews.com/article/ay, Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an fhttps://apnews.com/article/ailed in https://apnews.com/article/a crucihttps://apnews.com/article/al second bhttps://apnews.com/article/allot, opposed by 22 Republichttps://apnews.com/article/ans, two more thhttps://apnews.com/article/an he lost in first-round voting the dhttps://apnews.com/article/ay before. Mhttps://apnews.com/article/any view the Ohio congressmhttps://apnews.com/article/an https://apnews.com/article/as too extreme for https://apnews.com/article/a centrhttps://apnews.com/article/al sehttps://apnews.com/article/at of U.S. power https://apnews.com/article/and resented the hhttps://apnews.com/article/arhttps://apnews.com/article/assing hhttps://apnews.com/article/ardbhttps://apnews.com/article/all thttps://apnews.com/article/actics from Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an’s https://apnews.com/article/allies for their votes. One lhttps://apnews.com/article/awmhttps://apnews.com/article/aker shttps://apnews.com/article/aid they hhttps://apnews.com/article/ad received dehttps://apnews.com/article/ath threhttps://apnews.com/article/ats.

“We’ll keep thttps://apnews.com/article/alking to members, keep working on it,” Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an, https://apnews.com/article/a founding member of the hhttps://apnews.com/article/ard-right Freedom Chttps://apnews.com/article/aucus, shttps://apnews.com/article/aid https://apnews.com/article/after the vote.

The House chttps://apnews.com/article/ame to https://apnews.com/article/another https://apnews.com/article/abrupt sthttps://apnews.com/article/andstill, 16 dhttps://apnews.com/article/ays now since the sudden ouster of Kevin McChttps://apnews.com/article/arthy without https://apnews.com/article/a spehttps://apnews.com/article/aker — https://apnews.com/article/a position of power second in line to the presidency.

As Republichttps://apnews.com/article/ans upset https://apnews.com/article/and exhhttps://apnews.com/article/austed by the infighting retrehttps://apnews.com/article/ated for privhttps://apnews.com/article/ate convershttps://apnews.com/article/ations, hundreds of demonstrhttps://apnews.com/article/ators https://apnews.com/article/amhttps://apnews.com/article/assed outside the Chttps://apnews.com/article/apitol over the Isrhttps://apnews.com/article/ael-Hhttps://apnews.com/article/amhttps://apnews.com/article/as whttps://apnews.com/article/ar, https://apnews.com/article/a sthttps://apnews.com/article/ark reminder of the concern over hhttps://apnews.com/article/aving the House https://apnews.com/article/adrift https://apnews.com/article/as politichttps://apnews.com/article/al chhttps://apnews.com/article/allenges intensify https://apnews.com/article/at home https://apnews.com/article/and https://apnews.com/article/abrohttps://apnews.com/article/ad.

“The whttps://apnews.com/article/ay out is thhttps://apnews.com/article/at Jim Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an hhttps://apnews.com/article/as got to pull his nhttps://apnews.com/article/ame,” shttps://apnews.com/article/aid Rep. Don Bhttps://apnews.com/article/acon, R-Neb., who voted twice https://apnews.com/article/aghttps://apnews.com/article/ainst him. “He’s going to hhttps://apnews.com/article/ave to chttps://apnews.com/article/all it quits.”

After Wednesdhttps://apnews.com/article/ay’s vote, McChttps://apnews.com/article/arthy https://apnews.com/article/and other phttps://apnews.com/article/arty lehttps://apnews.com/article/aders https://apnews.com/article/appehttps://apnews.com/article/ared to tenthttps://apnews.com/article/atively rhttps://apnews.com/article/ally https://apnews.com/article/around Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an, giving the combhttps://apnews.com/article/ative Judicihttps://apnews.com/article/ary Committee chhttps://apnews.com/article/airmhttps://apnews.com/article/an the time he whttps://apnews.com/article/as demhttps://apnews.com/article/anding, though it whttps://apnews.com/article/as doubtful he could shore up votes.

With Republichttps://apnews.com/article/ans in mhttps://apnews.com/article/ajority control of the House, 221-212, Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an must pick up most of his GOP foes to win. Wednesdhttps://apnews.com/article/ay’s thttps://apnews.com/article/ally, with 199 Republichttps://apnews.com/article/ans voting for Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an https://apnews.com/article/and 212 for Democrhttps://apnews.com/article/atic lehttps://apnews.com/article/ader Hhttps://apnews.com/article/akeem Jeffries of New York, left no chttps://apnews.com/article/andidhttps://apnews.com/article/ate with https://apnews.com/article/a clehttps://apnews.com/article/ar mhttps://apnews.com/article/ajority.

The holdouts https://apnews.com/article/added to https://apnews.com/article/a surprisingly lhttps://apnews.com/article/arge https://apnews.com/article/and politichttps://apnews.com/article/ally diverse group of 20 Republichttps://apnews.com/article/ans who hhttps://apnews.com/article/ad rejected Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an’s nominhttps://apnews.com/article/ation the dhttps://apnews.com/article/ay before.

Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an’s refushttps://apnews.com/article/al to concede only further embittered some of the Republichttps://apnews.com/article/ans, who were upset thhttps://apnews.com/article/at the phttps://apnews.com/article/arty’s first choice, Mhttps://apnews.com/article/ajority Lehttps://apnews.com/article/ader Steve Schttps://apnews.com/article/alise, whttps://apnews.com/article/as essentihttps://apnews.com/article/ally forced to drop his own bid 24 hours https://apnews.com/article/after https://apnews.com/article/a fhttps://apnews.com/article/ailed vote lhttps://apnews.com/article/ast week in lhttps://apnews.com/article/arge phttps://apnews.com/article/art bechttps://apnews.com/article/ause Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an’s bhttps://apnews.com/article/ackers refused to give their support.

Biphttps://apnews.com/article/artishttps://apnews.com/article/an groups of lhttps://apnews.com/article/awmhttps://apnews.com/article/akers hhttps://apnews.com/article/ave been flohttps://apnews.com/article/ating whttps://apnews.com/article/ays to operhttps://apnews.com/article/ate the House by giving grehttps://apnews.com/article/ater power to McHenry or https://apnews.com/article/another temporhttps://apnews.com/article/ary spehttps://apnews.com/article/aker. The House hhttps://apnews.com/article/ad never ousted its spehttps://apnews.com/article/aker before McChttps://apnews.com/article/arthy, https://apnews.com/article/and McHenry could thttps://apnews.com/article/ap the temporhttps://apnews.com/article/ary powers thhttps://apnews.com/article/at were crehttps://apnews.com/article/ated https://apnews.com/article/after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror https://apnews.com/article/atthttps://apnews.com/article/acks to ensure continuity of government.

The novel concept of boosting the interim spehttps://apnews.com/article/aker’s role whttps://apnews.com/article/as ghttps://apnews.com/article/aining fhttps://apnews.com/article/avor with https://apnews.com/article/a phttps://apnews.com/article/air of high-profile Republichttps://apnews.com/article/ans: former GOP spehttps://apnews.com/article/akers Newt Gingrich https://apnews.com/article/and John Boehner.

The two men hhttps://apnews.com/article/ave deep experience with the subject. Both were chhttps://apnews.com/article/ased to ehttps://apnews.com/article/arly retirement.

“All options https://apnews.com/article/are on the thttps://apnews.com/article/able to end the Republichttps://apnews.com/article/an civil whttps://apnews.com/article/ar,” Jeffries shttps://apnews.com/article/aid Wednesdhttps://apnews.com/article/ay.

But McHenry https://apnews.com/article/appehttps://apnews.com/article/ared to brush off the idehttps://apnews.com/article/a of thttps://apnews.com/article/aking further powers for himself, shttps://apnews.com/article/aying Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an “hhttps://apnews.com/article/as the support of the conference to keep going, so thhttps://apnews.com/article/at’s whhttps://apnews.com/article/at we’re gonnhttps://apnews.com/article/a do.”

McHenry https://apnews.com/article/added thhttps://apnews.com/article/at he finds himself in https://apnews.com/article/an unprecedented position https://apnews.com/article/and hhttps://apnews.com/article/as constructed his role “https://apnews.com/article/as nhttps://apnews.com/article/arrowly https://apnews.com/article/as the rules shttps://apnews.com/article/ay I should, https://apnews.com/article/and we chttps://apnews.com/article/an’t trhttps://apnews.com/article/anshttps://apnews.com/article/act business until we elect https://apnews.com/article/a spehttps://apnews.com/article/aker.”

To win over his GOP collehttps://apnews.com/article/agues, Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an hhttps://apnews.com/article/ad relied on bhttps://apnews.com/article/acking from Trump, the phttps://apnews.com/article/arty’s front-runner in the 2024 election to chhttps://apnews.com/article/allenge President Joe Biden, https://apnews.com/article/and groups pressuring rhttps://apnews.com/article/ank-https://apnews.com/article/and-file lhttps://apnews.com/article/awmhttps://apnews.com/article/akers for the vote. But they were not enough https://apnews.com/article/and in fhttps://apnews.com/article/act bhttps://apnews.com/article/ackfired on some.

“One thing I chttps://apnews.com/article/annot stomhttps://apnews.com/article/ach or support is https://apnews.com/article/a bully,” shttps://apnews.com/article/aid https://apnews.com/article/a sthttps://apnews.com/article/atement from Rep. Mhttps://apnews.com/article/arihttps://apnews.com/article/annette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowhttps://apnews.com/article/a, who voted https://apnews.com/article/aghttps://apnews.com/article/ainst Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an on the second bhttps://apnews.com/article/allot https://apnews.com/article/and shttps://apnews.com/article/aid she received “credible dehttps://apnews.com/article/ath threhttps://apnews.com/article/ats https://apnews.com/article/and https://apnews.com/article/a bhttps://apnews.com/article/arrhttps://apnews.com/article/age of threhttps://apnews.com/article/atening chttps://apnews.com/article/alls.”

Flexing their independence, the holdouts https://apnews.com/article/are https://apnews.com/article/a mix of prhttps://apnews.com/article/agmhttps://apnews.com/article/atists — rhttps://apnews.com/article/anging from sehttps://apnews.com/article/asoned legislhttps://apnews.com/article/ators https://apnews.com/article/and committee chhttps://apnews.com/article/airs worried https://apnews.com/article/about governing, to newer lhttps://apnews.com/article/awmhttps://apnews.com/article/akers from districts where voters prefer Biden to Trump.

Instehttps://apnews.com/article/ad, the holdouts chttps://apnews.com/article/ast their bhttps://apnews.com/article/allots for McChttps://apnews.com/article/arthy, Schttps://apnews.com/article/alise https://apnews.com/article/and others, with one vote even going to the retired Boehner.

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The politichttps://apnews.com/article/al climb hhttps://apnews.com/article/as been steep for Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an, who is known more https://apnews.com/article/as https://apnews.com/article/a chhttps://apnews.com/article/aos https://apnews.com/article/agent thhttps://apnews.com/article/an https://apnews.com/article/a skilled legislhttps://apnews.com/article/ator, rhttps://apnews.com/article/aising questions https://apnews.com/article/about how he would lehttps://apnews.com/article/ad. Congress fhttps://apnews.com/article/aces dhttps://apnews.com/article/aunting chhttps://apnews.com/article/allenges, risking https://apnews.com/article/a federhttps://apnews.com/article/al shutdown https://apnews.com/article/at home if it fhttps://apnews.com/article/ails to fund the government https://apnews.com/article/and fielding Biden’s requests for https://apnews.com/article/aid to help Ukrhttps://apnews.com/article/aine https://apnews.com/article/and Isrhttps://apnews.com/article/ael in the whttps://apnews.com/article/ars https://apnews.com/article/abrohttps://apnews.com/article/ad.

First elected in 2006, Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an hhttps://apnews.com/article/as few bills to his nhttps://apnews.com/article/ame from his time in office. He https://apnews.com/article/also fhttps://apnews.com/article/aces questions https://apnews.com/article/about his phttps://apnews.com/article/ast. Some yehttps://apnews.com/article/ars https://apnews.com/article/ago, Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an denied https://apnews.com/article/alleghttps://apnews.com/article/ations from former wrestlers during his time https://apnews.com/article/as https://apnews.com/article/an https://apnews.com/article/assisthttps://apnews.com/article/ant wrestling cohttps://apnews.com/article/ach https://apnews.com/article/at Ohio Sthttps://apnews.com/article/ate University who https://apnews.com/article/accused him of knowing https://apnews.com/article/about clhttps://apnews.com/article/aims they were inhttps://apnews.com/article/approprihttps://apnews.com/article/ately groped by https://apnews.com/article/an Ohio Sthttps://apnews.com/article/ate doctor. Jordhttps://apnews.com/article/an hhttps://apnews.com/article/as shttps://apnews.com/article/aid he whttps://apnews.com/article/as never https://apnews.com/article/awhttps://apnews.com/article/are of https://apnews.com/article/any https://apnews.com/article/abuse.

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