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House Republicans failed to elect Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to lead their caucus during a second round of voting on Wednesday, as calls grew among some to empower speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC) in the interim.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the Republican nominee for Speaker, failed to get the necessary number of votes to win the gavel in the first round of voting on the House floor. Twenty Republicans withheld their support for Jordan, leaving the Ohio representative far short of the majority of the full House’s votes, which he would…