At some point, the person second-in-line to the presidency should have to answer for his efforts to subvert democracy.
The House Republicans were giddy, boisterous, maybe a little punch-drunk after a lengthy day — at the end of a lengthy several weeks — spent trying to select a new leader for their party’s conference. They had at last landed on one, Rep. Mike Johnson , and crowded around him as he answered questions from reporters.“Mr.
On Oct .24, House Republicans booed a reporter who asked GOP speaker designate Rep. Mike Johnson about his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. After all, this wasn’t Rep. Jim Jordan , the fringe-right megaphone who had been Trump’s initial pick for the job. The opposition McCarthy faced on the House floor in January was generally from his party’s more conservative wing, from legislators whose districts had voted more heavily for Trump in 2020. When Jordan was the nominee for speaker, though, the opposition came from the other side, from less-conservative legislators in districts Trump had won more narrowly or even lost.
“I say this for Americans of both parties or any party, or whoever they voted for: we all should have an interest in these very specific clauses of the Constitution being followed,” Johnson said at one point.“That was a big thing about why people supported Trump originally — the importance of following the Constitution closely,” Chotiner replied.“Sure, sure. Exactly,” he said.
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