Mike Johnson Wins! (Sort of)

What the hell just happened?

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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…