Republican Jim Jordan’s hardball tactics cost him votes Tuesday in his campaign to be US House speaker, dragging out efforts to fill a congressional leadership vacuum into a third week.
Twenty GOP holdouts withheld support from the ultra-conservative backed by former President Donald Trump on an initial ballot Tuesday. Republicans later postponed any more speaker votes until Wednesday at 11 a.m., a sign he wasn’t able to demonstrate momentum.
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