There are so many reasons why Republicans would be bonkers to elect Representative Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House on Tuesday. The first is that the twitchy, shirt-sleeved House Judiciary Committee Chairman and one of the founders of the House Freedom Caucus is not the face a normal GOP would want to put before […]
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