Mike Johnson elected House speaker with broad GOP support
Mike Johnson elected House speaker with broad GOP support
Republican congressman Mike Johnson of Louisiana has been elected House speaker. Republicans eagerly voted to give Johnson the gavel on Wednesday. Johnson picked up an important nod of support ahead of the vote from Donald Trump.
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The only supporting evidence in this article, as to why the GOP, elected Johnson:
“I think he’s gonna be a fantastic speaker,” Trump said Wednesday at the New York courthouse where the former president, who is now the Republican front-runner for president in 2024, is on trial over a lawsuit alleging business fraud.
From here:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/who-is-mike-johnson-republican-2020-election
"Johnson served on Donald Trump’s legal defense team during his first impeachment."
and:
"He played a key role in assisting Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, the New York Times reported last year. When Texas filed a lawsuit at the US supreme court asking the justices to set aside valid electoral votes from Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona, he organized a friend-of-the-court brief in support and got 125 of his House Republican colleagues to sign on."