A messy GOP race for House speaker gets messier thanks to Trump

By any fair measure, the House Republican conference has seen better days. This was, after all, the week in which a sitting GOP House speaker faced a successful revolt launched by members of his own party, leading to the first such ouster in American history. A day later, a New York Times analysis argued persuasively that House Republicans “have become ungovernable.” Politico published a related assessment, under a headline that read, “The House GOP is a failed state.” It’s against this backdrop that House Republicans are engaged in a difficult...