Republicans Drop Jordan Speaker Bid After a Third Failed Vote

Jim Jordan will not be the next speaker of the House. That became abundantly clear, if it wasn’t already, when Jordan lost a third round of voting on the House floor Friday and Republicans then dumped him as their nominee in secret balloting at a closed-door meeting. “We are in a very bad place right now,” former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy acknowledged to reporters after the vote, in which 25 Republicans refused to support Jordan. The GOP has been in a bad place for a while. The House has gone