House Democratic leaders are predicting that bipartisan talks to find a unity speaker candidate will “accelerate” on Tuesday evening, just hours after Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) failed to garner enough support among his GOP colleagues to secure the speaker’s gavel.

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