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House speaker live updates | Jim Jordan set to try again

House speaker live updates | Jim Jordan set to try again

Bipartisan groups of lawmakers have been floating ways to operate the House by giving greater power to the interim speaker, Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, or another temporary speaker

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House plans to return for a second round of balloting for House speaker on Wednesday morning as Jim Jordan fights to win over his many holdouts for the job to replace the ousted Kevin McCarthy.

Jordan lost 20 Republican votes Tuesday and pleaded afterward to his colleagues that they "must stop attacking each other and come together.”

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Jim Jordan’s rapid rise has been cheered by Trump and the far right