Despite Strong Trump Backing, McCarthy Loses 4th and 5th Vote for Speaker of the House

WASHINGTON—With tempers beginning to flare openly on the floor Wednesday, the new Republican House majority failed for the fifth time to elect a speaker of the House and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) continued looking for a way through the impasse.
The vote on the fifth ballot showed McCarthy getting 201 votes, with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) getting 212, and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), the favorite of McCarthy’s GOP opponents, receiving 20. Those were the same totals the trio received earlier in the day on the fourth ballot.
Also, Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.) voted present for the second time. Spartz told reporters in explaining her votes that “we need to move the needle.”…}