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.
Wait, I’m confused. I thought he wasn’t going to run a 3rd time? But he still ran and lost, and now the GOP is dropping him entirely from the running?
It’s almost as if the GOP is suffering through a clusterfuck clownshow of its own making.