Jim Jordan Admits An Election Loss

WASHINGTON — After failing to win the speaker’s gavel in a House floor vote for the third time, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Friday asked his GOP colleagues if he should keep trying. Voting by secret ballot in the Capitol basement, Republicans told Jordan no by a vote of 112 to 86. And that was that. “Rep. Jordan stated before the vote that he would accept the will of the conference and so he was gracious, as we expected him to be, in accepting the results,” Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.)...