On Friday, Congressional lawmakers convened to elect the next Speaker of the House.
Mike Johnson (R-La.) will serve as Speaker of the House for the 119th Congress.
With the Republican majority at 219-215, Johnson could lose only one Republican vote to remain speaker.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was reelected to the top post in the House in a stunning floor vote on the opening day of Congress on Friday, securing the gavel on the first ballot.
It appeared that he would fail on the first ballot as Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Keith Self (R-Texas) voted for other candidates. However, the chamber held the vote open as Johnson conferred with his opponents and Norman and Self switched their votes to applause in the chamber.
The vote came after President-elect Donald Trump issued his “total” endorsement of Mike Johnson (R-la.) earlier this week.
“Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN. Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement. MAGA!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also offered her endorsement of Johnson shortly before Friday’s vote.
Watch:
“Tomorrow we convene at noon in the House of Representatives, and our first order of business will be to vote for Speaker of the House. This is a historic vote, and it is the first order of business that we have to accomplish before we can even swear in as members of Congress,” began Greene. “Now, here’s how I feel about it. You all have seen may disagree with Mike Johnson at times. You’ve seen me fight against him at times. But you want to know something else? Here’s what I recognize: For the past four years, all of you and myself included, have put blood, sweat, and tears into electing President Trump. And when you want to talk about blood, President Trump himself actually was the one that shed blood after an assassin shot him in the face.”
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I’m assuming that NO Democrats could find the brain power to vote for a Republican.
My observation: Republicans, regardless of good intentions, are changed by the system (swamp)! After a monumental failure with the budget, we still pick the loser!
Trumps first term was riddled by poor personnel choices. Johnson is a calm, collected “Priest.” What we need is a Gladiator…willing to fight, not have fellowship!
According to https://heritageaction.com/scorecard/members/J000299/117 the Heritage organization rates his session score at 96%, and lifetime score at 90%.
As far as I am concerned, he’s a good smoozer, but he needs to be a lot tougher on the Rinos by calling them out for their surrender to Democrat pork, and not fighting to the death in support of conservative legislation by not being willing to shut down the government for as long as it takes to restore the rule of law and reduce the national debt. The Republicans need to scream their lungs out to inform the public regarding the pork that Democrats routinely put in all of their bills. He’s much too nice at a time when the Democrats in the congress need to be exposed on a daily basis, something that most Republicans have been unwilling to do, yet the Democrats get away with their lies about Republicans all the time, and news media then trumpets the lies until the general public is brainwashed. Mike Johnson and all the rest of them need to held accountable for not restoring conservative values. I understand the difficulty that conservatives have when dealing with Democrats, the media and deep state, but Johnson and all the rest of them will have to earn my respect by doing their job a whole lot differently that what I’ve seen in the past.
So, the republicans got past this. Now, they need to work together to make progress & not let the demos mess this up as they always do. Republicans need to work together.