The latest on the House Speaker race.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Jim Jordan. The Ohio Republican failed to win the requisite votes to become Speaker on Tuesday, leaving his future in doubt and the House of Representatives in a state of paralysis. Jordan’s nomination for House Speaker began after a handful of Republicans ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) earlier this month, citing broken promises on spending and for working with Democrats to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government from shutting down.
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| 0:34.7 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:44.9 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get news from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of Isaac's take. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm your host, John Law, and I'm going to be filling in for the next couple of days. |
| 1:04.7 | And today we are talking about Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican, who is currently on a bid to try to become Speaker of the House. |
| 1:13.6 | Before we continue, a quick note, we have a new YouTube video up that we posted today. |
| 1:19.1 | Recently, Isaac sat down with Christopher Dowling McGill to talk about his experience with |
| 1:24.3 | conversion therapy. It is a fascinating, poignant, heartfelt interview. |
| 1:30.8 | I learned a lot watching it and editing it, and I think you all will too. So I'm encouraging |
| 1:36.0 | you to go to our YouTube channel and watch the interview in full. There is a link to it in |
| 1:42.7 | today's episode description. And without further ado, |
| 1:46.6 | we'll get things started today with some quick heads. |
| 1:55.3 | First up, an unknown number of people were reportedly killed after an explosion at a hospital |
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