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The hard-line Republican backed empowering Representative Patrick McHenry on a temporary basis after running into opposition from a bloc of mainstream G.O.P. holdouts.
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) put his Speaker of the House bid on hold Thursday and backed Representative Patrick T. McHenry (R-NC) for the role of interim speaker.
And neither do the rest of the MAGA Republicans.
Representative Jim Jordan’s initial defeat left the man once branded a “legislative terrorist” pressing to cut the kind of deals he has long railed against.
Twenty Republicans refused to support the hard-right Ohio Republican, leaving him without a majority as the party infighting stretched into a third week.