House speaker hopeful Tom Emmer spoke to Trump to ease tensions as race to replace McCarthy drags into third week – as it happened

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• Who are the nine Republicans running for speaker?

There are three members of the Freedom Caucus in the race for House speaker: Gary Palmer, Mike Johnson and Byron Donalds, a Donald Trump ally who would make history as the first Black speaker.

But winning the gavel will require the back of at least some of the moderate Republicans who turned their backs on the similarly conservative Jim Jordan last week, and there's no saying if Donalds would be successful.