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After a long 'war', the Republicans have finally agreed on the name of the speaker of the House of Representatives.
Republicans elected Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker of the House of Representatives this Wednesday, installing a deeply conservative but lesser-known leader in the seat of American power and ending political chaos in most of them.
Louisiana's Johnson took the first ballot with the support of all Republicans anxious to put the last few weeks of turmoil behind them and get on with the business of governing.
A lower-ranking member of the House leadership team, Johnson emerged as the fourth Republican nominee in what has become an almost absurd cycle of political infighting since the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as Republican caucus jockey for power.
While not the party's top pick, the deeply religious and untroubled Johnson has few enemies and an important GOP supporter like Donald Trump.
" I think he's going to be a fantastic president ," Trump said Wednesday in a New York court where the former president, who is now the Republican front-runner for president in 2024, is on trial in a lawsuit alleging fraud. business.
Trump said he hadn't heard "one negative comment about him and that everybody likes him.
After three weeks without a House speaker, Republicans have lost their majority status.
Members of the extreme right have refused to accept a more traditional leader and conservatives do not want a hard line. Although Johnson was unopposed during the private call late Tuesday, about two dozen Republicans did not vote, more than enough to sink his nomination.
But when the chairman of the GOP Conference, Rep. Elise Stefanik rose to introduce Johnson's name Wednesday as their candidacy, Republicans rose to a standing ovation.
" The Republicans of the House of Representatives and Speaker Mike Johnson will never give up ," she said./ AP
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