Congressman Mike Johnson of Louisiana has enough votes to be elected House speaker. The Republican majority has been without a speaker for three weeks.
on Wednesday, as Republicans were eagerly elevating the little-known conservative leader to the seat of U.S. power and ending for now the political chaos in their majority.
"I think he’s gonna be a fantastic speaker," Trump said Wednesday at the New York courthouse where the former president, who is now the Republican front-runner for president in 2024, is on trial over a lawsuit alleging business fraud.Republican Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson was elected as nominee for House speaker Tuesday evening.
House Speaker nominee Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks beside fellow members after being nominated for House Speaker, inside the Longworth House Office Building at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, October 24, 2023. , who dropped out of the race to be House Speaker just moments before Trump exited the courtroom. Earlier in the day, Trump said Emmer was "finished.
Elevating Johnson to speaker would give Louisianians two high-ranking GOP leaders, putting him above Scalise, who was rejected by hard-liners in his own bid as speaker. Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who led a small band of hard-liners to engineer McCarthy's ouster at the start of the month, posted on social media that "Mike Johnson won’t be the Speaker the Swamp wants but, he is the Speaker America needs."
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