Mike Johnson Wins! (Sort of)
What the hell just happened?
Mike Johnson is, for now, the Speaker of the House in the 119th Congress. And he won that job on the first ballot (sort of)!
So:
a) How did we get here?
b) Where do we go from here?
The answer to “a” is a lot simpler.
We knew, going into today’s Speaker’s vote that Johnson faced a tough math problem. There were 434 voting Members…
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