Mike Johnson supported efforts to overturn the 2020 election and comes from the party's Christian right faction, supporting a nationwide ban on abortion and pushing to overturn same-sex marriage
Mike Johnson supported efforts to overturn the 2020 election and comes from the party’s Christian right faction, supporting a nationwide ban on abortion and pushing to overturn same-sex marriageAn until-now low-profile Republican lawmaker has been catapulted into a post as Speaker of the US House of Representatives after aRep.
The new Speaker, who has been vice chair of the House Republican Conference since 2021, comes from the party’s Christian right faction, supporting a nationwide ban on abortion and pushing to overturn same-sex marriage.The new Speaker has only been in Congress since 2017 and has never chaired a House committee or served in the party leadership, making him the least experienced lawmaker to hold the role of Speaker in more than a century.
Adam Kinzinger, another ex-Republican congressman who voted to impeach Mr Trump, said he remembered Mr Johnson “lobbying me to support” a lawsuit claiming the election was “stolen.”
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