Johnson, R-La., was the first of four GOP nominees who could secure enough support from within his party to win a majority of votes on the House floor.
Temporary House speaker Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., talks with Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., before Republicans try to elect Johnson to be the new House speaker, at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday.
Johnson will take office with just over three weeks before government funding expires on Nov. 17, and a week after President Biden requested ae for Israel, Ukraine, border security funding and other foreign policy goals. He will face the same challenge that ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., did ahead of an earlier funding deadline: how to govern a fractious conference that includes conservative hardliners and members in swing seats with a razor-thin majority.
Johnson, a Christian conservative, had the bonafides to win over the hardliners, without the baggage that tanked Jordan’s candidacy. Jordan is one of the most fervently far-right members of the House Republican conference, and was a founding member of the House Freedom Caucus. He gained a national profile as one of former President Trump’s biggest defenders during his two impeachments.
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