{"id":12049,"date":"2023-10-27T14:07:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12049"},"modified":"2023-10-27T14:07:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:07:42","slug":"3-winners-and-3-losers-from-the-house-speaker-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12049","title":{"rendered":"3 winners and 3 losers from the House speaker circus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Johnson is a movement conservative close to the Christian right. He\u2019s also a stalwart Trump ally who actively worked to help<\/a> the former president try to overturn Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s victories in key 2020 swing states \u2014 making Trump, who helped torch the chances of Johnson\u2019s leading rival Tom Emmer on Tuesday, another winner.”
…
“After Johnson won the GOP conference\u2019s speaker nomination Tuesday night, one reporter asked him about<\/a> having led Trump\u2019s challenges to the 2020 election results. The assembled GOP leadership team booed, with one member yelling \u201cshut up!\u201d Johnson demurred: \u201cNext question.\u201d
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“January 2025 could be different. The House that meets to certify the presidential election results that month will be newly elected, but Johnson could well still be speaker. If so \u2014 and if there\u2019s a similar dispute where Trump is denying a Biden victory \u2014 it\u2019s far from clear what Johnson will do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generally, from November 2020 through January 2021, the Republican Party behaved terribly irresponsibly, but just enough Republicans in positions of power did the right thing \u2014 certifying the results<\/a> at some political cost. Since then, critics of Trump\u2019s attempt to seize power have largely been purged from the party, and election denial has been increasingly normalized. For instance, Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), an idiosyncratic conservative, said he initially<\/a> wouldn\u2019t support a speaker candidate who denied the election results \u2014 but he backed Johnson anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would a GOP-controlled House certify a Democratic victory in the\u00a02024 presidential election<\/a>? With Johnson in charge, that may have grown less likely \u2014 and that has ominous implications for the state of American democracy.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/10\/25\/23931518\/house-speaker-race-mike-johnson-winners-losers-analysis-takeaways<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Johnson is a movement conservative close to the Christian right. He\u2019s also a stalwart Trump ally who actively worked to help the former president try to overturn Joe Biden\u2019s victories in key 2020 swing states \u2014 making Trump, who helped torch the chances of Johnson\u2019s leading rival Tom Emmer on Tuesday, another winner.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“After Johnson won the GOP conference\u2019s speaker nomination Tuesday night, one reporter asked him about having led Trump\u2019s challenges to the 2020 election results. The assembled GOP leadership team booed, with one member yelling \u201cshut up!\u201d Johnson demurred: \u201cNext question.\u201d<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“January 2025 could be different. The House that meets to certify the presidential election results that month will be newly elected, but Johnson could well still be speaker. If so \u2014 and if there\u2019s a similar dispute where Trump is denying a Biden victory \u2014 it\u2019s far from clear what Johnson will do.
\nGenerally, from November 2020 through January 2021, the Republican Party behaved terribly irresponsibly, but just enough Republicans in positions of power did the right thing \u2014 certifying the results at some political cost. Since then, critics of Trump\u2019s attempt to seize power have largely been purged from the party, and election denial has been increasingly normalized. For instance, Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), an idiosyncratic conservative, said he initially wouldn\u2019t support a speaker candidate who denied the election results \u2014 but he backed Johnson anyway.<\/p>\n

Would a GOP-controlled House certify a Democratic victory in the 2024 presidential election? With Johnson in charge, that may have grown less likely \u2014 and that has ominous implications for the state of American democracy.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/2023\/10\/25\/23931518\/house-speaker-race-mike-johnson-winners-losers-analysis-takeaways<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,1383,509,968,506,1741],"class_list":["post-12049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-politics","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans","tag-speaker-of-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12050,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12049\/revisions\/12050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}