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.”…