House plans third vote for Jim Jordan while Democrats eye power-sharing deal

The House will hold a vote for speaker later Thursday to give Republican nominee Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio a third shot at the gavel as he struggles to convince nearly two dozen holdouts to back him.

The stalemate, now in its third week, has empowered Democrats in the minority to ambitiously eye a deal to elect a speaker with some frustrated Republicans who would give them more power and perhaps an equal say over the agenda.

Mr. Jordan, the favored candidate of the GOP’s hardline conservative faction, has lost two rounds of voting thanks to opposition from some appropriators and others who want to thwart the arch-conservatives who on Oct. 3 ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy, California Republican.

“I’m still running for speaker and I plan to go to the floor and get the votes and win this race, but I want to go talk to a few of my colleagues,” Mr. Jordan said.

The House has been paralyzed since Mr. McCarthy’s removal under a rule that prohibits anyone except an elected speaker from running the House.