House speaker hopeful Tom Emmer spoke to Trump to ease tensions as race to replace McCarthy drags into third week – live

It has now been 20 days since the House of Representatives last had a speaker, and the Republican majority is no closer to figuring out who should lead Congress’s lower chamber than they were when Kevin McCarthy was booted out of the job by the far-right and Democrats. On Friday, conservative firebrand Jim Jordan’s candidacy collapsed after failing to win the speaker’s gavel in three rounds of voting, and…