After weeks without a Speaker of the House, the People's House has finally selected one pro-Trump Louisianan for the job: Rep. Mike Johnson.
The Republicans’ long national nightmare is over. After three weeks of anger and frustration, every member of the House GOP united behind Mike Johnson, a strongly pro-Trump lawmaker from Louisiana. America now has a speaker. My take: It was sheer exhaustion. The GOP needed to stop the madness. Some speaker, any speaker, was better than none.
Johnson emerged so quickly that the media did not have an opportunity to vet him, but that is already under way. 'The Far Right Gets Its Man of the House,' said a New York Times headline just hours later. Democrats were quick to criticize the new speaker for his stance against gay rights and aid to Ukraine.
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