Far-right House members will not accept a more traditional speaker and more moderate members do not want a hardliner.
Republicans chose Mike Johnson as their latest nominee for House speaker late on Tuesday, hours after an earlier pick, Tom Emmer, abruptly withdrew in the face of opposition from Donald Trump and hardline Republicans.
Mr Johnson immediately faced a roll call behind closed doors to test his support ahead of a House floor vote, when he will need almost all Republicans to win the gavel.Three weeks on, the Republicans are frittering away their majority status — a maddening embarrassment to some, democracy in action to others, but not at all how the House is expected to function.
“He wasn’t MAGA,” said Mr Trump, the party’s front-runner for the 2024 presidential election, referring to his Make America Great Again campaign slogan. A lawyer specialising in constitutional issues, Mr Johnson had rallied Republicans around Mr Trump’s legal effort to overturn the 2020 election results.
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