House Minority Leader Holds News Conference on Speaker Election

C-SPAN: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) held a news conference amid ongoing efforts to elect a speaker of the U.S. House. He said that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the latest candidate nominated to be the speaker by Republicans, was a “poster child for MAGA extremism,” and called him “a clear and present danger to our democracy.” Also, when asked by a reporter about empowering Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) as acting speaker, Rep. Jeffries said Democrats’ focus was not on any specific individual, but on resuming U.S. House business.

Jim Jordan Loses Twenty Republicans in First Ballot

C-SPAN: Ohio Republican Jim Jordan falls short of the 217 votes needed to become speaker, losing twenty members of his own party in the first ballot.