Meanwhile, the minority Democrats continued to vote in unison for their leader, Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the first black person to lead a party in Congress. But it seems unlikely that he can win over six Republican defectors to become president.
Three days. eleven votes. There is still no Speaker of the US House of Representatives.

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