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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The Republican chaos caucus returns as a GOP-Rump derailed the election of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House.

Welcome, Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel and editorial board member Kate Batchelder-Odel.

Welcome to you both on this exciting Tuesday.

As we sit here taping, they are doing the second ballot for the Speaker of the House.

On the first ballot, the winner, at least getting the most votes, was Democrat, Congressman Hakim Jeffries with 212 votes.

Then Kevin McCarthy with 203.

And about a dozen and a half Republicans voting for somebody else.

Of course, to get elected as Speaker of the House under the rules as they sit before us now, you have to get a majority, which is 218 if everyone is voting.

And so, Kim, maybe the best place to start is just to catch us up a little bit with where we are now and what the process is from here on out.

Sure. So now that this first vote has failed, we have moved on to a second one.

And here's the problem is someone needs to get 218 under the current rules to become Speaker of the House.

And what we had in the first vote was a sizable defection from McCarthy. People had thought that there would be seven or eight people who defected in the end.

It was closer to 20 and that certainly did not look good for him.

Now what we have is Jim Jordan, the member from Ohio, who is a member of the Freedom Caucus or was, but decided to go into leadership a few years ago.

He has a lot of respect from very conservative members of the House. He stood up and gave a rousing endorsement of McCarthy, made a lot of arguments for him and tried to inspire everyone and remember that they are there for common purpose to get things done.

And then this was followed by one of the rebels, Matt Gaetz standing up and nominating Jim Jordan for the speakership.

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