Members of the Capitol Hill press corps keep watch as the U.S. House of Representatives gathers for a third round of voting to elect a new Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 20, 2023.
One half of the U.S. Congress remains paralyzed in an operatic spectacle of betrayal, bitterness and internecine backstabbing. The House of Representatives will soon have gone three weeks without a Speaker, after repeated failures by Republicans.Reporters keep watch as the U.S. House of Representatives gathers for a third round of voting to elect a new Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Friday. The vote saw Rep. Jim Jordan fail again to win the position.
His failure has triggered bursts of cheer among those who viewed Jordan as spectacularly ill-suited for the job: a fast-talking, hyper-partisan, election-denying Trump ally who has appeared on Fox Newscloser to the ideological centre But his many supporters in the party will fume, including the lively masses who feast on Fox News and who disproportionately vote in party primaries.
The former Speaker shouted at Gaetz in a members' meeting this week — telling him to stop talking, and reportedly punctuating his admonition with a four-letter adjective. In a pre-mortem on his show this week, predicting impending failure, conservative radio host Erick Erickson cited five reasons.Democrats repeatedly referred to this; it was clear they'd hang this label on vulnerable swing-district Republicans in next year's election.
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