Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was also once called a key “architect” in Congress’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.
Johnson finally secured the speaker’s gavel after Republican infighting left the House without a speaker for 22 days. He secured 220 votes.
Johnson is a four-term congressman representing Louisiana. His win also represents the rise of the MAGA front in the Republican Party. Earlier Wednesday morning, Donald Trump endorsed Johnson as House speaker—after quickly killing Mike Emmer’s nomination the day before.
He said “Guns don’t shoot people; teaching evolution shoots people.”
While Hakeem Jeffries would refute that by saying “Teaching evolution doesn’t shoot people, guns shoot people” and have you seeing that is much more accurate while wishing it was him who had gotten the 220 votes to become Speaker of the House.