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Jim Jordan’s Failed Strategy, Shockingly, Keeps on Failing<!-- wp:html --><p>Jonathan Ernst/Reuters</p> <p>As the House began its 17th day without a speaker, Rep. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/jim-jordan">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH)—clearly short of the votes he needs to win the position—started Friday with an 8 a.m. press conference and an anecdote about the Wright brothers.</p> <p>The Ohioan regaled the Capitol Hill Press corps with a history lesson about how Orville and Wilbur Wright first flew a plane in 1903, and then, 66 years later, in 1969, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.</p> <p>“We went from two guys flying 100 feet to putting a man on the moon,” Jordan said. “It is a great country.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jim-jordans-failed-strategy-shockingly-keeps-on-failing">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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As the House began its 17th day without a speaker, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)—clearly short of the votes he needs to win the position—started Friday with an 8 a.m. press conference and an anecdote about the Wright brothers.

The Ohioan regaled the Capitol Hill Press corps with a history lesson about how Orville and Wilbur Wright first flew a plane in 1903, and then, 66 years later, in 1969, Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.

“We went from two guys flying 100 feet to putting a man on the moon,” Jordan said. “It is a great country.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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