{"id":12530,"date":"2023-10-25T17:10:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=12530"},"modified":"2023-10-25T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:11:00","slug":"the-latest-on-the-house-speaker-race-election-denier-mike-johnson-makes-bid-for-speakers-gavel-as-gop-leadership-crisis-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/25\/the-latest-on-the-house-speaker-race-election-denier-mike-johnson-makes-bid-for-speakers-gavel-as-gop-leadership-crisis-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest on the House speaker race: Election denier Mike Johnson makes bid for speaker\u2019s gavel as GOP leadership crisis continues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik nominates Mike Johnson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-26.png?resize=696%2C392\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-26.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-26.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-26.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-26.png?resize=696%2C392&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-26.png?resize=1068%2C601&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-26.png?resize=747%2C420&amp;ssl=1 747w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-26.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>House Republican Conference chair Elise Stefanik nominated speaker designee Mike Johnson on the House floor Wednesday as the GOP looks to elect a speaker after failing to fill the vacancy for three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-23.png?resize=696%2C464\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-23.png?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-23.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-23.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-23.png?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-23.png?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-23.png?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-23.png?resize=1068%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-23.png?resize=630%2C420&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-23.png?w=1392 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;On behalf of the House Republican conference, I rise today to nominate the gentleman from Louisiana, Mike Johnson, as speaker of the people&#8217;s house,&#8221; Stefanik said, which followed loud applause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What we&#8217;re covering here<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Speaker vote:&nbsp;<\/strong>The House will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/25\/politics\/house-speaker-vote-republicans\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vote soon on the speakership bid<\/a>&nbsp;of Rep. Mike Johnson. The Louisiana lawmaker became the GOP\u2019s fourth speaker nominee Tuesday after Rep. Tom Emmer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/24\/politics\/house-republicans-speaker-nominee\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dropped out<\/a>. Johnson<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/25\/politics\/mike-johnson-speaker-nominee\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;has been a vocal supporter<\/a>&nbsp;of former President Donald Trump and was a key congressional figure in the failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>About the vote:<\/strong>&nbsp;A speaker needs a majority of the full House to be elected.&nbsp; Members can change their vote until the gavel comes down.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>What\u2019s at stake:\u00a0<\/strong>House Republicans face intensifying pressure to elect a new speaker\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/03\/politics\/mccarthy-gaetz-vote-motion-to-vacate\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted<\/a>\u00a0more than three weeks ago. The House remains effectively frozen without a speaker \u2014 a dire situation as Congress faces a November funding deadline and as crisis unfolds abroad in Ukraine and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/10\/09\/middleeast\/israel-hamas-gaza-war-explained-mime-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">with Israel\u2019s war against Hamas.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>House chamber mood is chipper and lively ahead of speaker vote<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker designee Mike Johnson is working the floor ahead of his speakership vote, shaking hands and taking selfies with members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A member approached and handed him a book that appeared to have \u201cJesus\u201d written on the front. Several members have also handed him letters which he is carrying around.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Jim Jordan is seated in the back of the chamber, frowning, seated next to Rep. Warren Davidson, one of his allies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Elise Stefanik is positioned at the dais ready to nominate Johnson.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The overall mood in the chamber is chipper, members are chatty, and laughter can be heard echoing from various conversations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar has been on the GOP side exclusively this morning, talking to Stefanik for a while.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Eli Crane has his kids in the chamber and is seated near the back right behind GOP hardliners Reps. Ken Buck, Andy Biggs, and Matt Rosendale.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Don Bacon is seated next to New York GOP members Nick LaLota and Anthony D\u2019Esposito, as he did for the previous votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeffries doesn\u2019t see much difference between Johnson and McCarthy&#8217;s politics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"433\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-24.png?resize=696%2C433\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-24.png?resize=1024%2C637&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-24.png?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-24.png?resize=768%2C477&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-24.png?resize=1536%2C955&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-24.png?resize=2048%2C1273&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-24.png?resize=696%2C433&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-24.png?resize=1068%2C664&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-24.png?resize=676%2C420&amp;ssl=1 676w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-24.png?resize=356%2C220&amp;ssl=1 356w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-24.png?w=1392 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said he doesn&#8217;t see a lot of daylight between Speaker designee Rep. Mike Johnson and former House Speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeffries told CNN he doesn&#8217;t believe Johnson&#8217;s politics are more conservative than that of McCarthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBoth Kevin McCarthy and Mike Johnson voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. They both support a nationwide ban on abortion. They both want to criminalize abortion care, and they both want to undermine Social Security and Medicare. Those are core issues for Democrats. There&#8217;s no daylight between Mike Johnson and Kevin McCarthy on those issues,\u201d he said.<br>When asked about whether he\u2019d be open to a short-term spending bill with spending cuts, Jeffries said \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mike Johnson can only lose 4 Republican votes to win the speakership<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>From CNN&#8217;s Annie Grayer and Kristin Wilson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two members have said they will be absent from the speaker vote today: Republican Derrick van Orden and Democratic Rep. Lou Correa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With those two absences, plus two vacancies, there are expected to be 431 members casting a vote for speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker-designee Mike Johnson will need&nbsp;<strong>216 votes to prevail, which means&nbsp;he can only lose four Republican votes&nbsp;and still claim the gavel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Correa\u2019s office told CNN that \u201cyesterday afternoon, Mr. Correa was called back home to Orange County for an immediate family emergency. He hopes to be back and voting in Washington as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Orden is in Israel and is not expected to be back, according to a source familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gaetz, who led effort to oust McCarthy, says he wouldn\u2019t &#8220;fault&#8221; Johnson over a short-term funding bill<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-25.png?resize=696%2C464\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-25.png?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-25.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-25.png?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-25.png?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-25.png?resize=2048%2C1366&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-25.png?resize=696%2C464&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-25.png?resize=1068%2C712&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-25.png?resize=630%2C420&amp;ssl=1 630w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-25.png?w=1392 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>House GOP firebrand Matt Gaetz, who led the effort to strip the gavel from former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, said that he would give speaker designee Mike Johnson more leeway than McCarthy if he has to agree to a short-term funding bill to keep the government open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wouldn&#8217;t fault speaker Johnson if we have to have some sort of bridge to those single subject bills, but that was never in the cards with Speaker McCarthy,\u201d Gaetz told CNN\u2019s Manu Raju, adding: \u201cThere\u2019s a fundamental difference. Kevin McCarthy took six weeks off in August, which was the tell that he was never serious about single subject bills.\u201d<br>He also said: \u201cMike Johnson&#8217;s goal is to get a single subject spending bills, Kevin McCarthy never had that goal, you might have said so. But like many things with Kevin McCarthy, it lacks truthfulness and sincerity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked by CNN whether he is giving a lot more leeway to Johnson, Gaetz said, \u201cI trust Mike Johnson. And I know Mike Johnson wants to achieve the goals I wanted to achieve. I didn&#8217;t trust Kevin McCarthy because he wanted to achieve the goals that K Street wanted to achieve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Ukraine aid, Gaetz said he was \u201cheartened\u201d that Johnson did not highlight further money for the war-torn country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was heartened that last night when Mike Johnson gave his acceptance remarks, he talked about Israel and we didn&#8217;t hear so much about excessive involvement for the United States in figuring out who&#8217;s going to run Crimea,\u201d Gaetz said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House GOP conference chair Elise Stefanik nominates Mike Johnson House Republican Conference chair Elise Stefanik nominated speaker designee Mike Johnson on the House floor Wednesday as the GOP looks to elect a speaker after failing to fill the vacancy for three weeks. &#8220;On behalf of the House Republican conference, I rise today to nominate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-26.png?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12535,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530\/revisions\/12535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}