Jim Jordan to keep up flailing bid for US House speaker in third round of voting

Republican infighting over speakership has left the chamber effectively shut down for more than two weeks

The US House of Representatives was prepared on Thursday to vote for a third time on congressman Jim Jordan’s flailing bid to become speaker, after the hard-right Ohio Republican failed to convince enough of his colleagues to deliver him the gavel.

Uncertainty reigned on Wednesday, when the House adjourned once again without electing a speaker. Jordan, the Donald Trump loyalist who led the congressional effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and now chairs the House judiciary committee, vowed to stay in the race even as his path forward had all but disappeared.