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.

  • @Dkarma
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    2311 months ago

    Funny how this is perfectly plausible.

    • @Rusticus
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      2711 months ago

      Source: Mary Trump

      • @Buddahriffic
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        111 months ago

        Corroborated by the evidence of those boxes of classified material he took home when he left while doing none of the things that would give some benefit of the doubt that he had good intentions, like releasing information to the public like Manning and Snowden did, which might be a part of what someone who really wanted to drain the swamp would do.