Joy Reid Laughs Hysterically After Hearing ‘Desperate’ GOP’s New Speaker Plan

A reported plan floated by former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to end his party’s weeks-long struggle to agree on his successor drew an outburst of laughter from MSNBC host Joy Reid on Tuesday.

Under the plan, according to NBC News, McCarthy would get a second stint as speaker while Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a more right-wing lawmaker who nevertheless failed to muster enough votes to obtain the gavel himself, would become “assistant speaker.”

Of the plan, floated three weeks since the speaker role was last occupied, one GOP lawmaker told the outlet: “We’re desperate.”

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